How am I integrating the personal and political in improving professional practice and generating educational knowledge with collaborative/cooperative action research?

Abstract

This paper outlines my living-educational-theory as an explanation of my educational influences in my learning, the learning of others and the learning of social formations, over the 49 years of my research programme, whilst working with political, historical and cultural influences in my practice and understandings. It integrates insights from the work of De Sousa Santos (2014) on ‘Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide’ as one of the most advanced social theories of today