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HOW DO I IMPROVE MY PRACTICE?: Creating a discipline
of education through educational enquiry.
Submitted by Jack Whitehead
for the degree of Ph.D.
of the University of Bath
1999
Abstract
This thesis shows how living educational standards of originality of mind
and critical judgement in educational enquiries has created a discipline
of education.
The meanings of these standards emerged from an analysis of my research
published between 1977-1999. The analysis proceeds from the base of my experience
of myself, my I, as a living contradiction in the question, How do I improve
this process of education here?
An educational methodology, which includes I as a living contradiction,
emerges from the application of a four-fold classification of methodologies
of the social sciences. Then the idea of living educational theories emerges
in terms of the descriptions and explanations which individual learners
produce for their own educational development.
A logic of the question, How do I improve my practice?, emerges from my
engagement with the ideas of others and from an exploration of the question
in the practical contradictions between the power of truth and the truth
of power in my workplace.
A discipline of education, with its standards of originality of mind and
critical judgement, is defined and extended into my educative influences
as a professional educator in the enquiry, How do I help you to improve
your learning?.
My living educational theory continues to develop in the enquiry , How do
I live my values more fully in my practice?. I explain my present practice
in terms of an evaluation of my past learning, in terms of my present experiences
of spiritual, aesthetic and ethical contradictions in my educative relations
and in terms of my proposals for living my values more fully in the future.
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