Jean's Writing

A paper presented at the Practitioner Research Special Interest Group Symposium,' Academic practitioner-researchers: shifting the epistemollogical centre in higher education'. University of Manchester, September 2009.

A paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. University of Manchester, September 2009.

A paper presented at the Practitioner Research Special Interest Group Symposium,' Academic practitioner-researchers: shifting the epistemological centre in higher education'. University of Manchester, September 2009.

A paper for the Keynote Symposium of the British Educational Research Association EXPLICATING A NEW EPISTEMOLOGY FOR EDUCATIONAL KNOWLEDGE WITH EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY. University of Manchester, 2009.

Lecture series at the University of Limerick, 28 May 2008.

A keynote presentation at the conference 'Portfolios for and of Professional Development' International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language Exeter, April 2008

Maynooth, National University of Ireland, March 2008.

A paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting as part of the Symposium Communicating and Testing the Validity of Claims to Transformational Systemic Influence for Civic Responsibility, Monday March 24th, New York.

AERA Professional Development Training and Extended Courses Proposal. March 2008

A modified version of this paper appears in Lesley Wood (ed.) (2008) Dealing with HIV & AIDS in the classroom, Cape Town, Juta Academic.

A paper to be presented at the Philosophy of Education Special Interest Group, Philosophical Issues in Higher Education, British Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Institute of Education , University of London Friday, 7 September 2007

A paper to be presented at the Practitioner Research SIG symposium Educational Knowledge: Explanations and Knowing at the British Educational Research Association annual meeting, Institute of Education, University of London Friday, 7 September 2007 by Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead, Universityof Bath.

A paper for publication in the Health Information and Libraries Journal, September 2007 issue.

A keynote paper presented at the New Horizons for Quality in Higher Education and Training Conference organised by the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education at the University of Pretoria, 1-4 July 2007.

A keynote paper presented at the Challenges and Opportunities within Practitioner Research Conference at St Angela's College, Lough Gill Sligo- A College of the National University of Ireland, Galway, 11th-12th May 2007.

A paper to be presented at the 2007 American Educational Research Association annual meeting in Chicago as a contribution to the Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group session on 'Immigration, Identity, and Critical Education', 10 April 2007.

A paper to be presented at the 2007 American Education Research Association annual meeting in Chicago as a contribution to the Action Research Special Interest Group session on 'Action Research: Participating, Transforming, and Creating', 13 April 2007.

A paper presented at the British Educational Research Association annual meeting, University of Warwick, September 8th 2006.

A paper presented with Jack Whitehead, University of Bath, at the British Educational Research Association 2005 Annual Conference at the University of Glamorgan on the 16th September 2005.

A paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Peace Education Special Interest Group Paper Discussion Session The self, the school, the world: Peace making, peace building, peace keeping April 2005.

A paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Peace Education SIG 'Peace Education: Transforming Conflict and Citizenship in Divided Communities' San Diego, April 2004.

A proposal submitted to the Peace Education SIG: 'Peace Education: Transforming Conflict and Citizenship in Divided Communities' American Educational Research Association, San Diego, April 2004.

A paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting as part of the interactive symposium for the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices.

A paper presented at an invitational seminar, The University of Stellenbosch, November 10th, 2003.

A paper presented at the Symposium 'The Community Function of Higher Education' at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April, 1995.

A paper to the All Ireland Society for Higher Education, Dublin Institute of Technology, October 2002.

A paper presented at the Conference 'Discourse, Power, Resistance: NewDirections, New Moves' at the University of Plymouth, April 6-8, 2003.

A paper presented at the Conference 'Discourse, Power, Resistance: New Directions, New Moves', University of Plymouth, April 6-8, 2003.

A paper presented at the Research Forum, Centre for Research in Teacher Education and Development, University of Alberta, 24th October 2002.

A paper presented to the Special Interest Group Peace Education at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1-5 2002.

A paper presented to the Special Interest Group Research on Evaluation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1-5 2002.

Notes for Jean McNiff's contribution to the Symposium Teaching and Learning Action Research American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 1-5, 2002.

A paper presented to the British Educational Research Asociation Annual Conference University of Leeds 13-15, September, 2001.

A paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Teacher Research, Richmond, BC, April, 2001.

A Paper presented at the Qattan Foundation, Palestine, January 2001.

This chapter is from 'Rethinking Pastoral Care' (1999) edited by Úna M. Collins and J.McNiff, published by Routledge, London. You can access further information about the book by clicking on the link to the Routledge website.

Abstract In this paper I call for an unequivocal legitimisation of the living ‘I’ in educational research. The paper itself becomes a context that explains this call. It is a report of my action research into my professional learning through working in South Africa, within the context of new policy frameworks for continuing teacher development. The call embeds issues about the need for higher education practitioners to produce their explanatory accounts of practice as they support teachers’ enquiries for improving practice and knowledge creation, and to legitimise a free academic press for the dissemination of those accounts. The accounts need to demonstrate epistemological, methodological and scholarly validity, to strengthen practitioners’ attempts to influence policy debates about continuing professional development. By clarifying the processes of establishing quality, it becomes possible to show the links between continuing professional education and the active contributions of practitioners to economic and social wellbeing.

Keynote presentation at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 19 August 2010

Preliminary notes for a presentation at the Symposium Value and Virtue in Pedagogical Action Research in Higher Education British Educational Research Association Annual Conference Institute of Education, London, 6th September 2011

This editorial celebrates the work of academic practitioners at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.