Work in progress

The bits here are very much draft and work in progress. It has not been my habit to share 'drafts' for reasons I would guess are similar to your own. But this is my playground and I reserve the right to change my mind and take the risk of putting into the public domain some personal thoughts - some less well formed than others, and some which on reflection I will decide are just expressions of my irrational prejudices and illogical thinking, I would be very interested in your reflections as you read - if you wanted to share them.

I made a 10 minute presentation at a conference 6th June 2010 on the work of educators and schools developing inclusive gifted and talented educational theory, practice and provision. The presentation - which I hope will grow if I can encourage people to contribute - can be downloaded here and a video of me presenting, (yeh I know, embarrassing but if I dont look I am not going to know what to improve) is on YouTube thanks to Jack. The first video is of Dr Barry Hymer introducing the work of Carol Dweck. Barry is a treat to listen to and I really appreciate this opportunity to be able to go over and over what he says.

 Draft thesis

I have just completed a draft for the interenal reader. Lots of people have been kind enough to respond to the drafts and I am going to keep working on it with their responses in mind after I hear from the reader. 

This proved helpful in focussing me. 'How to write a thesis' I think this helpful now whereas if I had focussed on this to start with I would have extinguished my own creativity by trying to fit into a formula. But then the major reason for creating the thesis is not to get a doctorate; the doctorate is a vehicle not the destination.

 Other bits and bobs

These are from some time back - but as I dont want to loose them am leaving them here for the time being.

I have been thinking about my concern with traditional research methods in education and the importance of understanding the influence of the research method used for educational enquiry. Bit of a mouthful, but I have found trying to articulate why I am concerned and why I want to work with Living Theory, surprisingly energising. I know I am way off being able to really engage other researchers with confidence but I am working on it and would be pleased if someone would tell me what they think of what I have written.

This is by way of a new draft 7th Jan 07

Huxtable M (2007) working on a generative response to the DFESHuxtableing my understandings of gifts and talents as I respond to national developments

I am still not happy with how far I got but have put together a bit more in a paper I prepared for  a lecture to PGCE students Feb 07 on gifted and talented education I have also put this in my writings section - so I can find it.

I got quite excited about the theories of learning at one of the masters group meetings and was encouraged to try to express what I was saying in an account that might be useful to the rest of the group. I got this far - see what you think

Huxtable M (2006) contribution to the masters learners and learning ‘I claim to have learnt – what evidence is there for my claim and what learning theories have influenced me?’