PAPER PRESENTATION
How are we
co-creating living standards of judgement in action-researching our
professional practices?
Jack Whitehead is a lecturer in education at the
University of Bath, UK. His programme of educational research has focused on
the original idea that individuals can produce explanations for their
educational influences in their own learning, in the learning of others and in
the learning of social formations, as their living educational theories.
Marie Huxtable is a senior educational psychologist in
the Bath and North East Somerset Local Authority who is also researching her
professional practice for a research degree of the University of Bath. She is responsible for coordinating in the
Local Authority the Able Pupils Extending Opportunities Project. This includes
Action Research for Inclusion, Pupils Attitude to Self and School and Emotional
Literacy for Inclusion.
The presentation will focus on the co-creation of the
living standards of judgement of action researchers as they enquire into living
their moral/ethical values as fully as they can in their workplaces.
The
significance of 20 living theory doctorates flowing through web-space from http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/living.shtml
will be analysed in terms of the new epistemology for the new scholarship.
Particular attention will be paid to the implications of changes in University
regulations that now permit the submission of e-media. The latest living theory
doctorates to be legitimated in the Academy will be analysed in terms of their
contributions to the emergence of a living theory of inclusional and responsive
practice in the creation of new living standards of judgement.
The central theme of the Congress is Standards and
Ethics in participatory research. This presentation reveals the meanings of our
constellations of professional ethics in our action research, action learning
and living theory practices. We demonstrate how we are improving our self
determination as we empower ourselves and contribute to the empowerment of
others in our roles as supervisor of action research programmes for higher
degrees and as a senior educational psychologist in a Local Authority with
responsibilities for extending the educational opportunities for able students
and for action research approaches to inclusion and emotional literacy. The
explanation of our influence includes addressing enquiries in which we are
seeking to improve well-being by enacting democracy and social justice on our
personal, local and global relationships and culturally mediated contexts.
Through our organization of processes of democratic evaluation we will show how
we serve to enhance democratic participation and critical reflection for
ourselves and those we work with. Our standards of ethical practice will be clarified
in the course of their emergence in our living theory generation. Our living
theories will be shown to give a direction to our work and community life in an
evidence based explanation of how we are contributing to the attainment of
participatory democracy, empowerment and social justice in educating the social
formations in which we live and work as well as influencing the education of
each other.
The content has been created through the culturally mediated agency of
our practices as educators and educational action researchers in a local
authority and in higher education. The content shows an inclusional
relationship between our explanations for our learning and our professional
practice. The content is an account of our learning we hold ourselves
accountable to living as fully as we can the culturally mediated values we have
co-created in the course of our enquiry.
i)
The multi-media presentation of the living standards
of judgement will include text, verbal presentation, dialogue, art and
interactive demonstrations using video-clips from the researchers' professional
contexts. The presentation of a visual narrative will document the process of
clarifying the meanings of the embodied values of the action researchers in the
course of their emergence in practice and their formation into living standards
of judgement of: equality of power relations; life-affirming energy; a loving
passion for education and learning in knowledge-creation; receptively
responsive systemic influence in the education of social formations. The
intention is to captivate the imaginations of the participants through the
aesthetic power of the communication.
The multi-media presentation will be accessible from the What's New
section of http://www.actionresearch.net
two weeks before the Congress opens. These multi-media resources will include
access to the visual narratives of learning that reveal the meanings of living
standards of judgement.
i)
The use of visual narratives in communicating the
meanings of the living standards
of judgement of equality of power relations; life-affirming energy; a loving
passion for education and learning in knowledge-creation; receptively
responsive systemic influence in the education of social formations.
NOTE
For paper and other presentations also
provide us with the following
C. Session Classification
Sub-theme Standards for participatory research processes
1 Hour
D. Session Requirements
Screen and LCD projector