Transformative potential of Living Educational Theory research as continuing professional development for building bridges and making connections in education with the hope of contributing to the creation of a better world

Huxtable, Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1808-0670 and Whitehead, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9644-0785 (2025) Transformative potential of Living Educational Theory research as continuing professional development for building bridges and making connections in education with the hope of contributing to the creation of a better world. In: Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference, 10-12 April 2025, Sheraton Athlone Hotel, Westmeath, Ireland. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The focus of this paper is on the transformative potential of Living Educational Theory Research as continuing professional development. We provide the evidence to justify the claim that this approach to continual professional development can build bridges and make connections in education with the hope of contributing to the creation of a better world. The bridges include connecting education policies from UNESCO to the values-laden, educational practices in the continuing professional development of educators and teachereducators. They include establishing and sustaining relationships and co-operative activities with teachers and teacher-educators throughout the world in the generation of their livingeducational-theories. These theories are legitimated and validated in universities throughout the world, including those in the Republic of Ireland and supported by the Network Educational Action Research Ireland.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Departments:	Institute of Education > Non-Initial Teacher Education
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	12 May 2025 10:42
Last Modified:	13 May 2025 08:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8819

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