Connecting curriculum development, creativity and professional learning through Living Theory research.

The focus is on an evidence-based explanation of how Living Theory research is connecting curriculum development, creativity and professional learning in local and global contexts. In Living Theory research individual practitioner-researchers generate and share their explanations of their educational influences in their own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of the social formations that influence their practice and understandings. These explanations emerge from asking, researching and answering questions of the kind, 'How do I improve this process of education here?' Each practitioner-researcher, using their methodological inventiveness, to clarify their embodied ontological values as explanatory principles in their explanations of educational influence. The ontological values are the values they use to give meaning and purpose to their professional lives in education