The dragons of conflict in 54 years of a global, Living Educational Theory Research approach to professional development

Whitehead, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9644-0785 (2024) The dragons of conflict in 54 years of a global, Living Educational Theory Research approach to professional development. In: International Professional Development Association Conference, 14-16 November 2024, Aston University, UK. (Unpublished)

Preview

PDF (paper) - Presentation Available under License CC BY-NC Download (392kB) | Preview

Abstract

‘Here Be Dragons’, refers to dangerous and unchartered contexts. In this paper the metaphor is used to reflect on both the dangers and the exciting opportunities of a 52 year educational research programme into an individual’s professional development as an educator and educational researcher. It moves from local classroom contexts into UK higher education and then into global, higher education contexts, including the Republic of Ireland, Canada, China, Nepal, India, USA and South Africa with learning from research presentations and workshops in many countries. It includes the clarification of the meanings of embodied values that distinguish a practice as ‘educational’ and constitute the values of human flourishing. It includes the transformation of these embodied values into explanatory principles of practical judgements on educational influences in learning, in the creation of an epistemology for international professional development in education.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Related URL(s):	Author
Departments:	Institute of Education > Non-Initial Teacher Education
Additional Information:	Jack Whitehead, Visiting Professor, University of Cumbria, UK.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2024 09:44
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2024 10:34
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8520

Downloads