You might like to know about, to follow, a current discussion sponsored by IDS (Peter Taylor, et al) about teaching democracy …
http://www.pnet.ids.ac.uk/guides/ltt/

Dianne
(PS put gory email details in your email)

Love to talk more about ALARA (http://www.alara.net.au) and what we can do for the national conference.

Here’s the blurb: Living Differently: Action Researching our way through the Ecological and Economic Meltdown

In the midst of successive waves of ‘bad news’ about our global economy and ecology, Action Learning and Action Research practitioners are turning their visions, objectives and methodologies to the newly emerging context. At the same time, many of us also encounter in the communities, organisations and people with whom we work, an inability to fully engage with the new realities. The liberal use of words like ‘sustainability’ may make things seem well, but is the needed response really galvanising?

Call for papers is already open, so perhaps we can talk about ways to present what’s been happening with EDUPOV?

Exciting stuff!

As a consequence, we have become part of our own failure to see broad scale change occur, particularly when it comes to social media. We need to develop something of a critical pedagogy to combat our own efforts!

If we are to truly invest in significant change it must be personal and deep rather than broad and all-encompassing, so that individuals can see how their actions can have an impact and also that they can commit in ways that are meaningful to them. I guess the phrase I use here is to “go to where people are at
” and work from there” - that’s where people are investing their efforts so far!

Hope all is well your way.

Married at last - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobology/sets/72157615873831722/

Off to Noumea tommorow. Wish us luck