For the Monday evening group and
an invitation to colleagues:
5.00-7.00 1WN 3.8, 23rd January 2006.
News from last week for including
in our conversation.
Margaret Farren's paper on How
can I support a web of betweenness through information and communications
technology (ICT), presented at an EARLI
invited SIG symposium in 2005, is now
available from e-learningeuropa.net at:
http://www.elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=7020&doclng=6&
Maggie is a Lecturer in
E-Learning, School of Education Studies of Dublin City University and is hoping
to join us on Monday to share her ideas on a web of betweenness and a pedagogy
of the unique. So, do please have a look at the paper before Monday evening.
Marian will be joining us to talk through her
post-doctoral enquiries. Marian is now working for the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)
and her business card shows that Dr Marian Naidoo is now working with the Corporate Development Team as National
Project lead for physical health. Marian is working to enhance the physical health of individuals receiving support from the mental health services.
Jean, Marie, Jack, Maggie and
Marion have been working hard to meet tomorrow's BERA deadline for submission
of proposals. Marion and Jack have a proposal submitted that focuses on
Marion's idea of empathetic validity in practitioner research. Marion was the
external examiner for Marian's thesis and we both feel that Marian communicated
meanings of passion for compassion, through a video narrative, that required
recognition of empathetic validity by the examiners.
Jean is submitting a symposium
proposal on, How
do we explain the significance of the validity of our self study enquiries for
the future of educational research? This
includes individual contributions from Jean, Jack and Maggie.
Jane and Erica are discussing the
possibility of meeting tomorrow's deadline with a proposal. Jane is in the
final phase of her doctoral writing as she clarifies the meanings of knowledge
transformation in her roles as creative writer, educator and Head of
Department.
Viv's dissertation is now ready
for submission on The Role of Structured Approaches in the Management of
Bullying Situations, and I'm hoping that we can develop further our
understandings of how to reduce bullying through responding to students'
experiences of bullying to develop anti-bullying strategies. It might feel
appropriate to connect this part of our conversation to a question I've been
working on, 'How am I
enhancing my educational influences with racialising discourses of whiteness in
living educational theories?' You can access the draft of my paper so far at http://www.jackwhitehead.com/monday/jwrace.htm . What is fascinating me is how to
ensure that a flow of life-affirming energy can be expressed with a recognition
of being white without being impeded by the scarifications of 'whiteness'.
Alon is continuing with his
writing up of his thesis on a heuristics of human existence. Perhaps we could
fix a date for a Monday evening conversation that pays sustained attention to
Alon's ideas?
Mariie's draft educational enquiry
on 'How can I improve my practice...?' for the masters programme is at: http://www.jackwhitehead.com/monday/mhee170106.htm
. Marie's proposal for a doctoral
research programme has been submitted. Marie is video-taping Barry Hymer today
and Barry is writing up his Ed.D. thesis. Barry is working on the philosophy
for children programme for B&NES.
If anyone has any advice from
experiences of South Africa to share with Jean, Jack and Joan before their
visits to Universities in Stellenbosch, the Free State and the Western Cape
from 18th Feb-8th March do please share it. Jean is
continuing with her work in Khayelitsha, a township near Cape Town.
Moira is
intending to contribute to our session on the 6th February before
her return to China in the final phase of her five year programme of VSO at
Guyuan Teachers College and China's Experimental Centre for Educational Action
Research in Foreign Language Teaching. After reviewing her time in China I
think Moira would like to think through some ideas related to VSO's exit
strategy from China in 2009.
John and his supervisor Patrick
from Bath Spa University are hoping to contribute to our conversation on the 30th
Jan. when we'll return to John's research into astrology as a tool for
philosophical and ethical self-enquiry and our conversation and video-tape of
the 14th November.
Any other news I've missed do
e-mail it in so we can keep up to date with what you are doing.
Love Jack.