Dr. Caitriona McDonagh and Dr. Bernie Sullivan have published the following paper in the ‘Educational Journal of Living Theories’ (EJOLTS). You can access the whole journal here: http://ejolts.net/current
Living Research: How do we realise our capacity to create knowledge as we live towards our professional values in our practice?
Inside Education is a weekly radio programme on 103.2 Dublin City FM in the Dublin area with live streaming on www.dublincityfm.ie. You can hear it every Wednesday live at 20:30 (Dublin time) or on podcast at http://www.insideed.com and from http://seandelaney.com/podcasts/.
In the following interviews with Sean Delaney, we hear Pip Bruce Ferguson, a founding member of NEARI, speaking about:
Why she found primary teaching difficult
Self development through her career
The influence of Paolo Freire on her thinking
Applying Freire to education
How she got involved in staff development at university level
How the process of staff development works
The flipped classroomChanging the research culture of a higher education institution
Action research
The network of educational action research Ireland.
What counts as research?
Jack Whitehead has extended the following invitation:
I’m hoping that you will enjoy the following brief for the Global Assembly at the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) conference I’ll be attending in Cartagena Columbia on the 16th June 2017:
I’d like to share the following url with NEARI members with the homepage of living-posters
http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/posters/homepage061115.pdf
and direct their attention to the central dialogue box on creating a living-poster:
This is a map of some areas of action research throughout the world from the collaborative space for AERA Action Research Special Interest Group.
You can find out more at https://sites.google.com/site/aeraarsig/Home/action-research-world-map
The last NEARI-meet was held in NUIG. It began with the usual informal coffees and chats. But, by 11.00 am Máire Ní Riordáin was leading a highly engaging conversation around ‘Communicating action research to others’.
These are Máire Ní Riordáin’s slides for the discussion on ‘Communicating action research to others’
Our Round Robin session was about sharing our research stories and was kicked off by a very stimulating presentation by Jane O’Connell. Joe McDonagh followed up with his insightful presentation. The final Round Robin of the day was presented by Fiona Dunne. Links to snippets of these presentations are available below.
After lunch, Jack Whitehead joined the meeting via Skype who discussed the nuanced nature of action research with the group and highlighted how the epistemology of action research is distinctive.
We discussed how can share expertise in the area of living theory and self-study action research via Skype, Padlet (https://padlet.com/marygtroche/t4d1r9ywxxe7), the NEARI Group Mail at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/neari-group and Twitter at @InfoNeari and of course here on our blog at https://eariblog.edublogs.org/
The final part of the day was dedicated to discussing future plans.
Our next NEARImeet will take place on September 17, 2016 in NUIM, Maynooth.
Snippets from NEARImeet 23 April:
from Jane O’Connell
Joe McDonagh
Fiona Dunne 1
Fiona Dunne 2
Skype conversation with Jack Whitehead
This is the second part of Sean Delaney’s interview with Jack Whitehead for Inside Education in January.
This presentation, from Prof. Jack Whitehead, was given at the NEARI meeting in DCU in January 2016. It focused on the importance of making public and sharing your embodied knowledge as educators in improving learning and professionalism in the Republic of Ireland’s schools, colleges and universities. It includes a focus on your unique creativity and the constellation of values you use in asking, researching and answering questions of the kind, ‘How do I improve what I am doing in my professional practice?’
You can read the full text of Jack’s presentation here.
Sean Delaney from Inside Education in conversation with Professor Jack Whitehead, from theUniversity of Cumbria. They discuss Jack’s approach to research known as “Living (Educational) Theory.”
We invite you to join us for a special NEARImeet with Dr. Jack Whitehead, on the 16th January 2016 from 10.00 to 14.45 in An Tearmann, the Interfaith Centre in the Glasnevin Campus of Dublin City University.
Our topic for discussion is The inclusivity of research methods: embracing messy methods. Please feel free to bring your own ideas and work, and to share these as appropriate during the discussions on the day.
We will be joined by Dr. Jack Whitehead (www.actionresearch.net) who is a Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Cumbria in the UK and a former President of the British Educational Research Association. His original practitioner-research includes the idea that we can all create our own living-educational-theories as we ask, research and answer our question, ‘How do I improve what I am doing?’ A living-educational-theory is an explanation of our educational influences in our own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations that influence our practice and understandings.
In his presentation he will explain why the teacher-research of NEARI colleagues is leading the way in enhancing professionalism in education and improving student learning. To support his presentation he will draw on the freely accessible issues of the Educational Journal of Living Theories (EJOLTS) at http://ejolts.net and the contents of the January 2016 issue of Gifted Education International at http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/gei2015/geicontents2016.pdf .
If you can join us, please e-mail Pip Ferguson on pip.ferguson@dcu.ie by 5pm on 10th January to reserve a place.
