Jean's Writing

Action research, transformational influences: Pasts, presents and futures. Lecture series at the University of Limerick, 28 May 2008. Word format

Living Portfolios: offering explanatory accounts for the lives we live.
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 Word format

Notes for a seminar at the Institute of Guidance Counsellors annual meeting,
Maynooth, National University of Ireland, March 2008. Word Format

Learning with and from people in townships and universities: How do I exercise my transformational educational infuence for generative systemic transformation?

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. Word Format

Evaluating Quality in Doing and Writing Action Research in Schools, Neighbourhoods and Communitites

AERA Professional Development Training and Extended Courses Proposal. March 2008 Word Format

I know how to set the caged bird free
A modified version of this paper appears in Lesley Wood (ed.) (2008) Dealing with HIV & AIDS in the classroom, Cape Town, Juta Academic. Word Format

How do I account for the good in what I claim as quality educational research?

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 Word Format

Offering explanations for our contributions as creative educational practices for a living networked world of educational quality

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. Word Format

Where the action is

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

The significance of 'I' in educational research and the responsibility of intellectuals

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. Word Format

Action research for cultural renewal

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. Word Format

Realising potentials: Achieving educational justice by transforming our South African township into a site for higher education

Jean McNiff and Tsepo Majake

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. Word Format

Realising the potential of edcuational action research for renewable cultural transformation

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. Word Format

Beyond Alterity: Creating my Post-Critical Living Theory of Transformational Identity

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

The accepted proposal for a symposium at the British Educational Research Association 2006 Annual Conference at the University of Warwick in September 2006. Word Format

How do we explain the significance of the validity of our self-study enquiries for the future of educational research?

Beyond alterity, creating my post-criticl living theory of transformational identity.

The accepted abstract for this paper presented at the British Educational Research Association 2006 Annual Conference at the University of Warwick in September 2006. Word Format

Teachers as educational theorists: transforming epistemological hegemonies

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. Word Format

Living With foxes: learning about Self, Home and the Other.

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. Word Format

Citizenship Education and its transformative potentials for Peace Education

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. Word Format

Citizenship Education and its transformative potentials for Peace Education

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. Word Format

Every Which Way

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. Word Format

How do we develop a twenty-first Century knowledge base for the teaching profession in South Africa? How do we communicate our passion for learning?

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

How can I promote an understanding of the generative transformational nature of lifelong education? - a paper describing an initiative that offers an example of how it might be done.

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. Word Format

Why I am going to China 4th October 2003

Reflections on a visit to China. October 2003. Word Format

Realising a knowledge base for new forms of educational theory at Irish universities

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

The tragedy of peace education

Jean McNiff with Revital Heimann

A paper presented at the Conference ‘Discourse, Power, Resistance: NewDirections, New Moves’ at the University of Plymouth, April 6–8, 2003. Word Format

The agonistic base of a scholarship of teaching in higher education

A paper presented at the Conference ‘Discourse, Power, Resistance: New Directions, New Moves’, University of Plymouth, April 6–8, 2003. Word Format

Creating a good social order through education

Notes for a series of meetings in Israel, February 7–19, 2003

An action research update: progress and other stories

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

What peace means for us, what conflict means for us: understanding Education for Mutual Understanding in the Northern Ireland curriculum.

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

Evaluating Information and Communications Technology: new ways of evaluating new ways of knowing.

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. Word Format

Refusals, resistances, and the transformative power of educational enquiry

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

Contested territories: the struggle for knowledge, power and identity: Setting out some preliminary ideas for a new research programme

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

Evaluating the educational impact of information and communications technology in Irish schools

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

Action Research and the Professional Learning of Teachers

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

Action research, a methodology of care

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.Word Format