Jack Whitehead's Writings

Update of 21 June 2006

My most ambitious publication to date is the following multimedia publication of October 2004 in the e-Journal Action Research Expeditions on DO ACTION RESEARCHERS' EXPEDITIONS CARRY HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY? HOW DO WE KNOW? An enquiry into reconstructing educational theory and educating social formations.

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I have also included near the bottom of the list of publications below the booklet on Improving Learning for 11-14 Year Olds in Mixed Ability Science Groups from the Schools Council's local curriculum development programme of 1976. This booklet marks a transformation in my learning about the importance of action/reflection cycles in descriptions and explanations of teachers' professional self-development in educational enquiries of the kind, 'How do I improve what I am doing?', in the context of seeking to help pupils to improve their learning. The file is some 5 MB and takes around 1 minute to download using broadband.

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htm Generating Educational Theories That Can Explain Educational Influences In Learning: living logics, units of appraisal, standards of judgment. A presentation in the Symposium on Generating Educational Theories That Can Explain Educational Influences In Learning, at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, 5-8 September 2007.
pdf Educational Influences in Learning with Visual Narratives. A multi-media presentation by Margaret Farren and Jack Whitehead to the 5th International DIVERSE Conference at Vanderbilt University, USA on 5th July, 2005. Proceedings published December 2006
htm The Living Educational Theories of Workers as Action Researchers and Lifelong Learners. A web-based keynote address to the Work-based Learning Network Conference 25th April, 2006, University of Northampton.
htm Paper for presentation by Jaqueline Delong and Jack Whitehead at the Invisible College Conference in San Francisco on the 6th April 2006, on 'Researching connections between the systemic influences of an educational leader and the explanations of teacher-researchers of their educational influences in learning.'
htm Notes for an interactive panel discussion at AERA on 8th April 2006 on how action research contributes to the public's best interest in terms of personal, professional, community, and social change.
htm Paper for presentation by Margaret Farren, Joan Whitehead and Jack Whitehead at the AERA Conference in San Francisco on the 8th April 2006, on 'Experiencing and evidencing educational influences in learning through self-study using ICT in schools and universities'.
htm 12 March 2006 Draft of the paper - How do I express and communicate embodied values of Ubuntu in an explanation of their educational influence in my own learning and in the learning of others?
htm Notes for Jean McNiff's and Jack Whitehead's Action Research Workshops in South Africa, 19 Feb. to 3 March 2006
htm Programme for Joan Whitehead and for Jean McNiff's and Jack Whitehead's Action Research Workshops in South Africa, 19 Feb. to 3 March 2006
htm 10.00-12.30, 11th March 2006, Room 1WN 3.11, Department of Education, University of Bath, Improving Education With Our Pupils Through Practitioner-Research: How do I improve what I am doing?
htm Notes for a contribution to a British Council Seminar on 6th December 2005 in Bath on Teachers' Professional Development Through Research.
htm Living inclusional values in educational standards of practice and judgement. Keynote for the Act, Reflect, Revise III Conference, Brantford Ontario. 11th November 2005
htm Conference Presentations at BERA 05 on 15 September 2005, 14.30-16.00, University of Glamorgan, on Creating Inclusional and Postcolonial Living Educational Theories, with Je Kan Adler-Collins, Margaret Farren, Marian Naidoo and Jack Whitehead together with the original proposal
htm Jean McNiff's and Jack Whitehead's Paper Presentation on 16 September 2005 at BERA 05 on 'Teachers as Educational Theorists: Transforming Epistemological Hegemonies'.
htm EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCES IN LEARNING WITH VISUAL NARRATIVES. Paper and Video-Conference presentation by Margaret Farren and Jack Whitehead to the 5th DIVERSE International Conference on Video and Videoconferencing in Education, 5 July, 2005.
htm Whitehead, J. Keynote Presentation by Jack Whitehead on 16 April 2005 at the ICTR Conference at McGill University, Montreal on, How Can We Improve The Educational Influences Of Our Teacher-Researcher Quests?
pdf Jack Whitehead's contribution on 14 April 2005 at the AERA Conference in Montreal on, How Do Our Web-Based Resources Reveal Living Standards of Democratic Accountability in Our Educational Practices?
htm Presentation by Jack Whitehead and Jean McNiff on 13 April 2005 at the AERA Conference in Montreal on, How Do We Explain Our Educational Influence in Living Our Democratic Values?
htm Presentation by Cheryl Black, Jackie Delong and Jack Whitehead on 12 April 2005 at AERA Conference in Montreal on, Demographic and Educational Influence of Our Leadership and Administration Practices Using Democratic Accountability
pdf Whitehead, J. & McNiff, J. (2004) Ontological, epistemological and methodological commitments in practitioner-research. Paper presented at the BERA 04 Symposium 17 Sept. in Manchester on: "Have We Created A New Epistemology For The New Scholarship Of Educational Enquiry Through Practitioner Research? Developing Sustainable Global Educational Networks Of Communication"
pdf Whitehead, J. (1985) An analysis of an individual's educational development - the basis for personally orientated action research. Published in Shipman, M. (Ed.) Educational Research: Principles, Policies and Practice, pp. 97-108; Falmer; London.
html Whitehead, J. (1989) Creating a living educational theory from questions of the kind, "How do I improve my practice?'. Published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol. 19, No.1,1989, pp. 41-52
html Whitehead, J. (1989) How do we Improve Research-based Professionalism in Education?-A question which includes action research, educational theory and the politics of educational knowledge. : 1988 Presidential Address to the British Educational Research Association. Published in the British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 15, No.1, pp. 3-17, 1989
pdf Whitehead, J. (2004) Do the values and living logics I express in my educational relationships carry the hope of Ubuntu for the future of humanity? Paper presented at the BERA 04 Symposium 16 Sept. in Manchester on: "How Are We Contributing To A New Scholarship Of Educational Enquiry Through Our Pedagogisation Of Postcolonial Living Educational Theories In The Academy?"
html Whitehead, J. (2004)Can I communicate the educational influence of my embodied values, in self-studies of my own education, in the education of others and in the education of social formations, in a way that contributes to a scholarship of educational enquiry? Draft presentation for the Fifth international Conference of S-STEP, 27June - 1July 2004
html Whitehead, J. (2004) What Counts as Evidence in the Self-studies of Teacher Education Practices? - final draft before publication in Loughran, J. J., Hamilton, M. L., LaBoskey V. K & Russell, T. (eds) (2004) International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices. Dordrecht; Kluwer Academic Publishers
html Whitehead, J. (1993) The Growth of Educational Knowledge. Creating Your Own Living Educational Theories. Originally published by Hyde publications in 1993.
html Whitehead, J. (2003) Improving Student Learning Through Passion in Professional Practice. Keynote to Ontario Educational Research Council on 28 November 2003
pdf Whitehead, J. (2003)Creating our living educational theories in teaching and learning to care: Using multi-media to communication the meanings and influence of our embodied educational values. Teaching Today for Tomorrow. Issue 19, pp. 17-20. (Click on the section for Issue 19 in pdf format and scroll down to page 19)
html Whitehead, J. (2003) The Growth of My Educational Knowledge in Responding to the Originalities of Mind and Critical Judgements of Others. A contribution to a Monday Evening Educational Conversation on 10th Nov. 2003
word Whitehead, J. (2003) Notes for a workshop on Perspectives on Spirituality in the Graduate School of Education of the University of Bristol on 19th March, 2003.
word Whitehead, J. (2002) How Valid Are Multi-Media Communications Of My Embodied Values In Living Theories And Standards Of Educational Judgement And Practice? Paper presented at AERA 2002, New Orleans
word Whitehead, J. (2002) Draft paper of 11th June, 2002, for discussion on Transforming embodied values of humanity into educational standards of judgement for use in creating a new disciplines approach to educational theory.
html Whitehead, J. (2001)Review of Unfolding Bodymind: Hocking, Brent; Haskell, Johnna; and Linds, Warren. (Eds.) (2001) Unfolding Bodymind: Exploring Possibility Through Education, Volume Three of the Foundations of Holistic Education Series. Brandon, VT: Psychology Press/Holistic Education Press.
html Whitehead, J. (2001) Living standards of judgement in what we know and how we know it. Paper presented at AERA on 14th April 2001 in Seattle - Division D.
word Whitehead, J. & Delong, J. (2001) Knowledge-creation in Educational Leadership and Administration Through Practitioner Research. Paper presented on 14th April 2001 at AERA in Seattle - Division K.
word Whitehead, J. (2000) Living Standards of Reflection, Research and Renewal. Keynote to the Ontario Educational Research Council Conference, 7th December 2000, Toronto
html Murray, P. & Whitehead J. (2000) White and Black with White Identities in self-studies of teacher-educator practices. Paper presented at AERA 2000, New Orleans
word Whitehead, J. (2000) Ways of knowing our educative influences on our students' learning. How valid are multi-media presentations and our associated explanations? Paper presented at AERA 2000, New Orleans
word Whitehead, J. (2000) 'How do I improve my practice? Creating a discipline of education through educational enquiry. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Teacher Research at Baton Rouge, April 2000
pdf Whitehead, J. (2000) Creating Our Own Knowledge. Keynote to the Act, Reflect, Revise IV Conference, in Brantford, Ontario, 17th February, 2000.
word Whitehead, J. (1999) Action Research in Teacher Training and in the Living Theories of Professional Educators. Paper presented at the University of Patras to a Conference organised by the Greek Centre for Educational Research, on 17 April 1999.
html Whitehead, J. (1999) Educative Relations in a New Era. Paper published in Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Vol. 7, No.1, pp. 73-90, 1999.
word Whitehead, J. (1999) How do I improve my practice? Creating a New Discipline of Educational Enquiry. PhD Thesis, University of Bath
html Whitehead, J. (1999) Creating a New Discipline of Educational Enquiry in the Context of the Politics and Economics of Educational Knowledge. Paper presented at the BERA Symposium in AERA 1999 in Montreal.
word Whitehead, J. (1999) How can School and University Teachers Reconstruct Educational Knowledge? Paper presented at the AERA Interactive Session, 'Not Talking Past Each Other: Cultural Roles in Educational Research'. AERA, April 1999. Montreal.
word Whitehead, J. (1998) Developing research-based professionalism through living educational theories. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Educational Studies Association of Ireland, in Dublin on 27 November,1998.
word Whitehead, J. (1998) Taking Charge of Educational Change with Action Research This paper was presented at the Annual Conference of the National Association for Pastoral Care in Education at Warwick University on 11 October, 1998.
pdf Whitehead, J. (1998) The philosophies of an educator and some philosophies of education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association in Belfast 27-30 August 1998, to the Symposium on 'Philosophy and Educational Research' convened by David Bridges.
html Whitehead, J. (1998) Educational Theories of Educational Change within Higher Education: Robustness in the Roman Ruins. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association in Belfast 27-30 August 1998, to the Symposium on 'Educational Change Within Higher Education' convened by Roger Murphy.
word Whitehead, J. (1998) Educational Theories of Educational Change within Higher Education: Robustness in the Roman Ruins. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association in Belfast 27-30 August 1998, to the Symposium on 'Educational Change Within Higher Education' convened by Roger Murphy.
rtf Whitehead, J. (1998) Action researchers creating their own living theories. Paper presented to the Action Research SIG session 9.45 of the American Educational Research Association Conference in San Diego on 14/3/98.
rtf Whitehead, J. (1998) Creating educational theories through paradigmatic and postparadigmatic possibilities. Paper presented at the BERA symposium at session 39.38 of the American Educational Research Association Conference in San Diego on 16/3/98.
word Whitehead, J. (1998) How do we make sense of the process of legitimising an educational action research thesis for the award of a Ph.D. degree? - a contribution to educational theory. (with Jacqui Hughes and Paul Denley). Published in Educational Action Research, Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 427-452, 1998.
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Whitehead, J. (1997) Educational action research and you. Paper presented at The Ontario Educational Research Council Conference on 5/12/97.

word Whitehead, J. (1997) Research and Professional Development: the future of educational research and educational theory in a new university. Paper presented at Kingston University on 21/11/97.
html Whitehead, J. (1997) How I have engaged with the power relations in the academy in supporting the self studies of practitioner-researchers? Paper presented at AERA in March 1997 in Chicago
html Whitehead, J. & Delong, J (1997) A collaborative enquiry into a Ph.D. researcher and supervisor relationship. Paper presented at AERA with Jackie Delong in March 1997 in Chicago
word Whitehead, J. (1996) A Better Way To Professionalism: Living Our Values In Our Practice. Lecture presented at Kingston University on the 12 July 1996
pdf Whitehead, J. (1992) How can my philosophy of action research transform and improve my professional practice and produce a good social order? A response to Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt. Published in Bruce, S. & Russell, A.L. Transforming Tomorrow Today; Brisbane, Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management Association Incorporated, Brisbane Australia.
pdf Whitehead, J. (1991) How do I improve my Professional Practice as an Academic and Educational Manager? A dialectical analysis of an individual's educational development and a basis for socially orientated action research. Published in Collins and Chippendale, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of the First World Congress on Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management, Vol. 2; Acorn Press. Australia
pdf Whitehead, J. (1976) Improving Learning for 11-14 Year Olds in Mixed Ability Science Groups
html Delong, J. & Whitehead, J. (1998) Continuously regenerating developmental standards of practice in teacher education: A cautionary note for the Ontario College of Teachers. Ontario Action Researcher, Vol. 1, No.1.