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How do I contribute to the education of myself and others through improving the quality of living educational space? The story of living myself through others as a practitioner-researcher.
Abstract of PhD Submission to the University of Bath, 2008
Simon Riding.
Within this text I propose and demonstrate an original relationally dynamic standard
of judgement within my practice of Living Myself Through Others. I explore the ongoing
nature of transition between living educational spaces upon myself and how
this process of change is addressed as I move through different stages of my career
and life. I argue that I am able to improve the quality of the living educational space
because of the relationships and experiences that I have had, alongside the living
core values that I hold. This thesis reflects on the potential impact of enabling
teachers to engage as teacher-researchers within their own school and accounts for
the process I went through in order to make this happen. I further argue for the need
to consider how practitioner accounts are assessed in order to ensure that the future
of education is driven forward through the development of teachers as researchers
influencing what educational knowledge is and how it is produced. The following text
is a living educational theory action research enquiry that utilises autobiography as a
way of accounting for one educator's transitions from being a classroom teacher,
through middle leadership and finally into senior school leadership. I argue that I am
the educator that I am because of the life I have led and the life that I am currently
leading. This thesis addresses the vastly important influence of relationships within
education and explores how these relationships impact on my practice as an
educator. The text incorporates and captures these relationships through enabling
these others to speak through their own voice. This thesis explores how I was able to
create the shared living educational space necessary to enable teacher-research to
occur and flourish.
CONTENTS
Title, contents, texts, acknowledgements, abstract Pages 1-7
Preface Page 8
Introduction Pages 12-20
Sequence 1: Values in Education Pages 21-83
1.1 Living myself through others 24
1.2 Methodology 44
1.3 Living Educational Theory 56
1.4 Action Research 59
1.5 Living Educational Space 68
1.6 Significant Others (1) 70
1.7 The criteria 76
1.8 Ethics 82
Sequence 2: The Past Pages 84-186
2.1 Autobiography 87
2.2 The School-Refuser Story 109
2.3 My parents 114
2.4 Significant Others (2) 120
2.5 Teaching and learning 128
2.6 Me as teacher-learner 145
2.7 Middle leadership 159
2.8 From Middle Leader to Senior Leader 163
Sequence 3: The Present Pages 187-255
3.1 The new Assistant Headteacher 188
3.2 Significant Others (3) 205
3.3 Line management and the early days 210
3.4 The dark 220
3.5 More teacher-research 221
3.6 The Bitterne Park Teacher-Research Group 230
3.7 Reflections on the Year 253
Sequence 4: The Future Pages 256-274
4.1 Living educational space 257
4.2 Living myself through others 259
4.3 Life story 272
Epilogue Pages 275
Appendices Pages 276-298
Appendix 1 Transcript 276
Appendix 2 Teacher Narrative 282
Appendix 3 E-Mail 285
Appendix 4 E-Mail 287
Appendix 5 E-Mail 291
Appendix 6 Interview Transcript 294
Appendix 7 Critique of a piece of research 297
References Pages 299-310
CONTENTS
You can download the contents of the PhD in PDF format by clicking here. It is a 1.9 Mb file and could take a minute or so to download with broadband