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Abstract: Working with collaborative projects: my living theory of a holistic educational practice Máirín Glenn This thesis is the narrative account of my research programme that has enabled me to make my original claim to have developed a living epistemology of practice that is grounded in dialogical, holistic and creative ways of knowing. From my belief that each individual is capable of developing their potential for learning and knowledge creation, I have come to see the interconnectedness of people and their environments as a locus of learning which may be embraced through technology. Through my research I have developed my capacity for critical engagement, especially in relation to critiquing many normative practices in dominant forms of education; specifically in terms of their underpinning technical rational ontologies and epistemologies of fragmentation. My original contributions to knowledge are to do with how I show that I can account for how I have transformed my own erstwhile fragmented epistemologies into holistic and inclusional forms of knowing and practice. From the grounds of my research-based practice, I am able to make my original claim that I have developed my living theory of a holistic educational practice, through collaborative multimedia projects, and I ground my evidence in the multimedia narrative of my research account. A distinctive
feature of my research account is my articulation of how my ontological
values of love and care have transformed into my living critical epistemological
standards of judgement, as I produce my multimedia evidence-based living
theory of a holistic educational practice. Through working with collaborative
multimedia projects, I explain how I have developed an epistemology of
practice that enables me to account for my educational influence in learning.
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