Notes from the
BERA Practitioner-Research SIG day at Bath on the 19th June 2004.
Whilst the
life-affirming and creative energy from Saturday's gathering in Bath is still
flowing through me I thought I'd send round the e-list and some thoughts
that emerged at the end of the day which seemed to carry some of our hopes for
the future. I've put the contents of the paper Brian circulated as Convenor of
the Practitioner- Research SIG at http://www.actionresearch.net/practitionerresearch.htm
and we might like
to give more thought to points 4,5 &6 that Joan drew attention to at the
end of the day:
4.
To
play a role in the development of national policies for practitioner research
through active engagement with policy makers and agencies leading this work in
teaching and other professions. (For example in the UK. the General Teaching
Councils of England and Scotland and the National College for School Leadership.)
5.
To
establish links with the Collaborative Action Research Network, the National
Teacher Research Panel, the Royal College of Nursing Research Society and other
regional, national and international bodies that have a leadership role in practitioner
research.
6.
To
give prominence to practitioner research within BERA's activities, through
contributing articles etc to Research Intelligence and BERJ, and leading
symposia at the annual conference.
I'll leave open
the practitioner-researcher e-forum which you can join at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=bera-practitioner-researcher&A=1
just to see if
this conversational space helps us to share our ideas and sustain our interest
in each others' enquiries. So, when you have thoughts to share, questions to
ask, information you think will be helpful do send it round the
practitioner-researcher list. Rather them me offering a summary of the
day that could act as a form of closure I'd just like to express my hope that
we will continue to share our ideas in a creative and living space where we are
bearing each other in mind.
The e-list I said
that I would circulate is below. Foursymbols the only person I couldn't
identify! Where an address hasn't got a full name I've put the name separated
by a hypen ' so just be careful to copy and paste the name/address after the
hyphen.
Having said that
I won't offer a summary of the day I'll now confirm my existence as a living
contradiction by connecting with three of the themes we talked about at the end
of the day! Do please add your own in the practitioner-researcher forum.
I certainly felt
a strong desire to learn more about postcolonial theory and how our growing insights into this
theory could influence our educational enquiries. With Paulus' help Sarah, Je
Kan and Jack are developing their contributions to a BERA Symposium on the 16th September in Manchester (details of the full conference are at http://www.bera.ac.uk ) on:
How Are We Contributing To A New Scholarship Of Educational
Enquiry Through Our Pedagogisation Of Postcolonial Living Educational Theories
In The Academy? - see http://www.actionresearch.net//monday/bera04b.htm
The theme of
creativity/generativity.
I've added Mairin
Glenn, Bernie Sullivan and Caitriona McDonagh to our list because they are contributing
with Marian, Jean, Joan and me to the BERA Practitioner-Research SIG Symposium
in Manchester on the 16th September on
Have We Created A New Epistemology For The New Scholarship Of
Educational Enquiry Through Practitioner Research? Developing Sustainable
Global Educational Networks Of Communication ' see http://www.actionresearch.net//monday/bera04a.htm
I've also added Jane Spiro to our list because of Jane's
research into creativity. If you go into http://www.actionresearch.net/arsup.shtml
you can scroll down the list of action research supervision for
details of Jane's research ' Jane is Head of Applied Linguistics at Oxford
Brookes University and a Google search on Jane Spiro will give you more
information on Jane's activities and writings.
The theme of
representation
Sarah has
redesigned her teacherresearch.net website and we could continue to develop our
understandings of appropriate forms of representation for our
practitioner-researcher by helping to extend the range of different forms of
representation on our web-sites. Do have a browse through.
http://www.teacherresearch.net/
I've kept open
the access to the details of each others' writings from our programme for the
day
at http://www.actionresearch.net/berasig190604.htm
. If you want to add any more of your writings to this list, just send on the
urls and I'll include them.
Je Kan
Adler-Collins jekan@fukuoka-pu.ac.jp
pat d'arcy
<patdarcy@waitrose.com>
Andrew
Bayliss - abayliss@soilassociation.org
Cheryl
Black charlee@sympatico.ca
steve.bridges@delphi.com
pip.bruce-ferguson@TWOA.AC.NZ
Eden Charles
<edencharles@btconnect.com>
Madeline Church
<madchurch@tiscali.co.uk>
Jackie Delong
<delonjac@gedsb.net>
Margarida Dolan
<edmmd@bath.ac.uk>
Kevineames@blueyonder.co.uk
James
Edgerton - James@compedge.freeserve.co.uk
maggie farren
<mfarren@compapp.dcu.ie>
bernadette.fitzgerald@uwe.ac.uk
Sarah Fletcher
- s.j.fletcher@bath.ac.uk
mairin glenn
<inverns@iol.ie>
Mary Hartog
- M.Hartog@mdx.ac.uk
jim kusch
<hawley@chorus.net>
Caitriona
McDonagh - Caitrionamd@hotmail.com
moira laidlaw
<moiralaidlaw@hotmail.com>
mariannaidoo
<naidoo@waitrose.com>
Jason.Nickels@nglam-tr.wales.nhs.uk
ericaholley
<ericaholley@btinternet.com>
andy larter
<andy.larter@virgin.net>
Sveta Mayer -
svmayer@lampton.hounslow.sch.uk
jean mcniff
<jeanmcniff@mac.com>
peter mellett
<pandjm@globalnet.co.uk>
Paul Murray
<paulus.murray@btopenworld.com>
nceku nyathi
<nnyathi49@hotmail.com>
polis pantilides
<polykarpos@hotmail.com>
Rosie Penny
<pennyr@smuc.ac.uk>
robyn_pound@yahoo.com
Mark
Potts - mpot@waitrose.com
ram punia
<edprp@bath.ac.uk>
alanrayner
<A.D.M.Rayner@bath.ac.uk>
SimonRiding simon@ariding1.freeserve.co.uk
"Charly.Ryan"
<Charly.Ryan@wkac.ac.uk>
Jacqui
Scholes-Rhodes - J.Scholesrhodes@btinternet.com
Alon Serper
- pspas@bath.ac.uk
jane spiro
<jspiro@brookes.ac.uk>
Brian wakeman
<brianwakeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Jack Whitehead ' edsajw@bath.ac.uk
joan.whitehead@uwe.ac.uk
foursymbols@blueyonder.co.uk
Love Jack