This book explores a value-based research methodology, Living Educational Theory Research (LETR), which aligns a values-based approach with key tenets of professional development to inform and inspire future educators’ practice.
Written by world-leading scholars in the field of LETR, the chapters are global in reach and promote the evolving and dynamic nature of the methodology and its application with real-world professional training within higher education. Through discussion and dialogue on the evolution of Living Educational Theory Research, the chapters explore topics such as professional development and community-based contexts, supporting academics wishing to improve their practice by placing the theory within a scholarly paradigm to legitimise its use for scholarly learning.
Demonstrating how insights from disciplines such as philosophy, sociology and psychology are integrated within the generation of living-educational-theories, this outwardly looking volume will appeal to postgraduate students, scholars and researchers involved with educational theory, action research and other forms of practitioner research, and education research methods more broadly.
Introduction Part 1 - Living Educational Theory Research generating knowledge from professional practice Chapter One - Origins and what constitutes Living Educational Theory Research Chapter Two - Living Educational Theory Research as a practice, process and methodology Chapter Three - Development of Living Educational Theory Research as an approach to continual and continuing professional development Chapter Four - Development of Living Educational Theory Research as an approach to the development of an educational pedagogy in higher education Chapter Five - A Living Educational Theory Research approach to developing as a social movement with values of human flourishing Part 2 - Living Educational Theory Research, evolution as an epistemology of practice Chapter Six - A living-logic: Defining the rationality of the explanations for educational influences in learning Chapter Seven - A relationally dynamic, educational epistemology Chapter Eight - Original methods for Living Educational Theory Research Part 3 - Living Educational Theory Research as an extending epistemology for practice Chapter Nine - Creating a future with Living Educational Theory Research Chapter Ten - Living Educational Theory Research creating a values-laden epistemology for a better global future Conclusion
Jack Whitehead is a Visiting Professor at the University of Cumbria and Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, South Africa. He is a former President of the British Educational Research Association and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Westminster College, Utah. Marie Huxtable is a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Cumbria. She continues researching into improving educational practice, supporting the spread of knowledge and understanding the practice of Living Educational Theory Research.
