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Latest edition of SCOOP January 2010.
News from Stephen Brookfield whose rock star status continues to rise:
The 99ers have had two albums released on the Spinout Records Label (Spinout are based in Nashville, Tennessee). Also, Freddy Cannon - an old rock and roller (Tallahassee Lassie, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Palisades Park) has recorded a song I wrote! Finally, our song about Crystal Palace FC (Championship, soccer) ("Eagles Forever") got played at half time at Selhurst Park (London, UK) recently. Stephen will be attending the 40th SCUTREA Conference at Warwick in July, so if you are there you can ask him about his alter ego, his alternative career and the reconstruction of identity, and their relationship to adult self-directed learning.
Congratulations to Richard Heslop (Leeds) who has been awarded his Ed.D for his successful thesis on police training.
Congratulations to Melissa Baker (UTS) who has also been awarded her Ed.D for a succdessful thesis on becoming a police chaplain. Melissa's methdology included an autoethnographical approach.
Congratulations to Tara Fenwick who has taken up a Chair in Professional Education at the University of Stirling.
Congratulations to Rob Mark who has been appointed Director of Education at The Queen's University Belfast.
Congratulations to Jim Crowther (Edinburgh), appointed Editor of Studies in the Education of Adults. He takes over from Miriam Zukas (Birkbeck) having completed her period of office in December 2009.
Congratulations to Professor Linden West of Canterbury Christchurch University in Kent on being awarded a chair.
Cheryl Hunt is an executive member of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality (BASS). This organisation recognises spirituality in all its forms, in secular terms as well as in faith traditions. The interests are focused very much on the implications of spirituality for professional practice. BASS was launched on 29 January 2010. It hosted a conference in May. A new journal, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, being launched by Equinox Publishing in May 2011, in co-operation with the British Association for the Study of Spirituality (BASS). Submissions can be accepted from 1 July onwards.
This is an interdisciplinary, inter-professional journal and will be international in scope. Cheryl will be the chief editor for at least its first three years. She would be most grateful if you could pass on this information to any colleagues or students who may be interested in writing for, or subscribing to, the journal. The journal will be available in print and online. In the online version we hope to carry abstracts of theses in the field of spirituality.
Membership of BASS is by application and will give access to a members' network where relevant conferences, courses etc can be advertised. The BASS website is currently nearing completion and will contain details of how to apply for membership; it will also contain information about the papers given at the highly successful international conference, Spirituality in a Changing World, hosted by BASS in London last month. There is a reduced membership fee for those who also wish to subscribe to the journal. For more information, click here.
Budd Hall and Darlene Clover are staying in London between the beginning of July to the of December 2010. Dalene is being attached to Birkbeck during this period, whilst Budd is working weith David Watson at the Institute of Education. As they are staying in the Islington area, Budd has joined Arsenal FC, but has not told us what position he will be playing at the Emirates Stadium.
A new award is being made in memory of the late David Jones, former Secretary, Chair and Honorary Member of SCUTREA. It will reflect the international and comparative interests in the study of adult education. Full details will be published later but is going to be similar to the Michael Stephens Award (£500.00 plus conference fees to present the paper at a subsequent SCUTREA Conference).
The next closing date for consideration for the Michael Stephens Award is 1 April 2011.
Our sister organisation, the European Society for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA) has launched an e-journal. Details can be downloaded by clicking here.
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