Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:12
From: Jack Whitehead <edsajw@BATH.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Start of the Review Process

Responding to Peter's initiation of the phase of the seminar where we focus on
developing our understandings of the criteria we use to assess the quality of our
practitioner-research..........

Pete, just sharing your hope that, using BERA 2000 as our starting point, appropriate
standards of judgement will emerge as living forms in the course of our dialogue. I
believe that we share an understanding of the meanings you explicated in your
BERA 2000 review as:

Respect for evidence; The nature of evidence; The logic of question and answer; An
aesthetically engaged and appreciative response; Taste; Megalothymia; Principles
into practice.

I'm also committed to your valuing of listening carefully to others and to use
linguistic, emotional, and cognitive imagination to grasp what is being expressed
and said. In seeking to understand others I will also be careful to resist my tendency
to either facilely assimilate what others are saying to my own categories and
language, or dismissing it as incoherent nonsense!

In reviewing my explanations for my educational influence in my own learning, in the
learning of others and in the learning of social formations at:
http://www.jackwhitehead.com/monday/c12805.htm I'm conscious of bringing myself
to the edge of my competence/incompetence and the creative sense of failing to
explicate the processes of pedagogising living educational theories in the way that
Margaret Farren has done at: http://webpages.dcu.ie/~farrenm/

So, in the process of reviewing the accounts of others of their educational influence,
in relation to my understanding of their standards of judgement, I intend to focus on
my own enquiry learning in exploring the question, 'How do I improve my
understanding of the processes of pedagogising living educational theories?' I'm
also hoping to respond to your enquiries in a way that is supportive in explicating the
standards of judgement you use to assess quality in your practitioner-research.

Love Jack.