Whitehead

How Could Living Theory Research Contribute To The Action Research Network Of The Americas?

Jack Whitehead, Research Institute for Professional Learning in Education (RIPLE) University of Cumbria, UK

ABSTRACT:

The Living Theory research contributions to ARNA are focused on the nature of the knowledge being generated by practitioner and other researchers around the world that could be of use in ARNA’s evolution. The joint actions in learning with and from each other include enquiring cooperatively with practitioner-researchers around the world. The enquiries can include insights from East Asian Epistemologies, within living-educational-theories. They can also include the inclusion of an Ubuntu way of being from Africa as a value that carries hope for the flourishing of humanity within living cultures of inquiry. The significance of Ñaupaj mampuni as a living legacy from South America with its meaning of towards the future taking the past with us is also considered as is the significance of the posters from the ‘virtual presences’ in the Town Hall Meeting of ARNA 2015.

Key Words:

Living Theory research; living-educational-theories; living posters; action research networks; evolution of ARNA.