What is it about?
It focused on the role of each individual educator in contributing to enhancing professionalism in education by generating and sharing their educational influences in their own learning and in the learning of others. It explains how individuals can explore the implications of asking, researching and answering questions of the kind, 'How do I improve what I am doing' to both improve practice and contribute to the professional knowledge-base of education.
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Why is it important?
The uniqueness of the paper is in showing how each individual educator can generate an explanation of their educational influences in learning, as their own living-educational-theory in a way that is now subsumed by any discipline of education, taken individually or in any combination. At the same time it explains how an individual's living-educational-theory can draw insights from the conceptual frameworks of several different disciplines and methodologies.
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Since 1967 my research has focused on enhancing professionalism in education through the individual enquiries of educators of the kind, 'How do I improve what I am doing?' The importance of this educational research is that it is focused on learning with values that carry hope for their flourishing of humanity
Jack Whitehead
University of Cumbria
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This page is a summary of: Creating a profession of educators with the living-theories of master and doctor educators, Gifted Education International, March 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0261429415575836.
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