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Professor Kath Green 1946-2007. Kath’s leaving do at NTU with Jim Johnson and Brian Beale (courtesy of Sue Cox). Kath Green .
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Kath’s leaving do at NTU with Jim Johnson and Brian Beale(courtesy of Sue Cox)
Kath Green • Connected knowing is empathetic, open, attempting to understand from deep inside by entering the place of the other person or idea in order to understand it. (Belenky, et al, 1996) • ‘We are all storytellers and we are the stories we tell’ (McAdams et al 2006:3) • ‘Extraordinarily re-experiencing the ordinary’ (Ira Shor, 1992:122)
Kath Green • ‘Everyday life is the source of social change and transformation’ (Quinney, 1998:xiii) • Dignity leads to confidence, and confidence leads to self-esteem - in a process of critical consciousness self-esteem becomes a political not personal concept (Griffiths, 2003)
Kath Green • Opening up ‘the places where we rework what has already happened to give current events meaning’ (Steedman, 1986:5) • ‘Any sense of the extraordinary is grounded first of all in ordinary experience’ (Quinney,1998:xviii) • A process of humanisation (Freire,1972)