HOW DO I COME TO KNOW MY SPIRITUALITY AS I CREATE
MY OWN LIVING EDUCATIONAL THEORY
Abstract of PhD Submission
BEN CUNNINGHAM
Abstract
How do I come to know my spirituality, as I create my own living educational
theory?
My thesis is a narrative which offers the following distinct and original
contributions to educational knowledge, as I show originality of mind
and critical judgment in connecting the personal with the professional
in my explanations of my educative relationships with others:
I show how my living engagement with my God is enabling me to author my
life and is part of the interweaving of my values in my educative relationships
with others.
I show the meaning of my values as I explain my educative relationships
in terms of how I dialectically engage the intrapersonal with the interpersonal.
I show how a dialectic of both care and challenge that is sensitive to
difference, is enabling me to create my own living educational theory
which is a form of improvisatory self-realisation.
I show how my leadership comes into being in my words and actions as I
exercise my ethic of responsibility towards others.
CONTENTS
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Abstract and Contents
Foreword and Introduction
Chapter 1: What is the most appropriate
ear for the reader to bring to my thesis?
Chapter 2: How have I educatively influenced
and, in turn, been educatively influenced in my role as a teacher educator
to a teacher, that teacher becoming an action research tutor to her teacher
colleague, on of whose pupils writes about her own concerns?
Chapter 3: What do I mean by my authentic
engagement with my God and with 'John'?
Chapter 4: How do I enable 'David'
to master his fears concerning discipline through offering him challenging
questions that will excite his imagination towards using creative solutions?
Chapter 5: How do I explore and explain
the nature of a professional conflict I experienced as leader of an action
research project at a college of education and come to a knowledge of
how to resolve it as I exercise my leadership 'differently'?
Chapter 6: What is the significance
of the 'living' spiritual ideas of Tom Merton and others to my action
enquiry about how I relate to myself and others?
Chapter 7: How do I now understand
my educational development in the light of my thesis question, 'How have
I come to know my spirituality as I create my own living educational theory?
Bibliography
Appendix - Action Research: 'How
do I improve what I am doing?' - word format
Appendix - Action Research: 'How
do I improve what I am doing?' - pdf format
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