Socratic Questions - Concluding section
- Reflecting on what I have written, how can I summarise the main focus of my research and why it has been important to me, personally and professionally? Central question, purpose and motivation, and the personal/professional significance of undertaking this journey
- What ethical issues did I encounter and what did I do to productively work with them in ways that helped me to realise my embodied values in practice? Ethical issues and contradictions, power issues, and tensions experienced trying to align practice with values and responsibilities as a professional practitioner with what result
- What have I learned in the process of creating an account of my Living Educational Theory Research journey and my living-educational-theory? Summary of findings and learning,
- What am I claiming has been learned by whom (including, but not exclusively, me) in the course of my research?
- What is the significance and implications of my learning and the knowledge I have created for what I do next:
- To improve my professional practice and realise my responsibilities as a professional practitioner and global citizen, and help others to do so too?
- To improve my contribution to the social formation, which forms the context of my practice, to realise its raisons d'être with values of human flourishing?
- To contribute to the learning and educational development of those who comprise that social formation
- Summary of argument
- What do I now understand about the role of my values of human flourishing in understanding and improving my professional practice?
- Concise synthesis
- What is the broader significance of what has emerged through my Living Educational Theory Research?
- Reach and relevance
- What question/s will be the focus for my research now and why
- Specific next steps and Relatability
- What implications might my research have for other professional practitioners working to realise more fully their educational, values-led responsibilities to hold themselves to account for improving their practice and contributing to the growth of global knowledge for the benefit of all?