Delong, Whitehead, and Huxtable

Town Hall: Come and join our live conversation with an international community of practitioner action researchers

Jacqueline Delong, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON, Canada; Jack Whitehead, University of Cumbria, UK; Marie Huxtable, University of Cumbria, UK

ABSTRACT:

The intent of this Town Hall meeting was to engage practitioner-researchers across the globe as attendees and virtually through the internet in a living-culture-of-inquiry through values-based dialogue in creating living-theories (explanations of our educational influence). In preparation for the session, participants created visual representations of their research in the form of e-posters for location on the Educational Journal Of Living Theories (EJOLTs) site - see http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/arna/arnaposters270415.pdf .

Multi-screen SKYPE conversations are shown to be influencing our perceptions of the idea that ‘I am because we are/we are because I am’ or i~we for shorthand and enabling us to ‘pool’ our life-affirming and life-enhancing energies, as well as sharing and evolving our relationally dynamic Culture of Inquiry and Living Theory research.

In small groups of 6-7, we share our experience with these sorts of dialogues and invite others to participate in conversations that influence our teaching and research practice and encourage use of this interactive process as a model for joint action, learning with and from each other.

KEY WORDS:

Living -Theory; Living-Culture-of-Inquiry; interactive; global communication; values-based dialogue