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Call for articles: Making Learning the Spark of Transformation, February 2012 AIP

Lena Holmberg and Jan Reed, editors on AIP Research Notes, are co-editing an issue of AIP about experiences of using AI in teaching and learning, and invite you to write something for this.

You can write as a student or a teacher, or as colleagues. Pieces may reflect on experiences in any discipline, from the workplace or the classroom as a stimulus for discussion and thinking.

They are following the 4I structure of AI as a way of organising contributions:

• INITIATE - accounts of how AI learning started
• INQUIRE - accounts of what it looked like
• IMAGINE - ideas about how it could be
• INNOVATE - how learning could change

Timeline for contributions

Contributions can be accounts, thoughts, studies or comments, up to 2500 words and could focus on any aspects in the 4I cycle.

Send your initial ideas (300 words max) by 1^st May and completed article by 31^st July 2011.

If you are interested and would like to find out more please contact either Lena lmholmberg@gmail.com or Jan jreedhexham@gmail.com

About the editors

Jan Reed is a researcher who has worked with older people and health and social care providers to develop services using AI. She has taught nurses and other professional groups at graduate and post-graduate level. She has written a number of books and papers, edited several journals, and now holds an Emeritus Chair at Northumbria University in the UK.

Lena Holmberg is a computational linguist with a PhD in education. She has applied Appreciative Inquiry in many organisational development projects as a consultant and manager for more than seven years. Together with former university colleagues, she started a research group focusing on software process improvement using AI. A keen networker, she participated in the start of the European, Swedish and UK AI networks.

Together Jan and Lena were guest editors for the AI Practitioner Issue in 2007 which focused on research methods. Since then they have been editors of the Research Column in the AI Practitioner. Inspired by the column participants and their own experience, they now embark upon a new venture together: A special AIP issue with the working title "Making learning the spark of transformation". Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a strengths-based approach, which focuses on discovering and building on achievements to plan the future.

Inspiring and transformational stories in the February 2011 AIP

Edited by Sarah Lewis and Lesley Moore, this compelling edition contains stories of:

• Appreciative Leadership in the Face of Tragedy an inspiring account of the turn-around of a public sector organization devastated by a human tragedy.
• Appreciative Leadership for Sustainable Development in India a transformational story about the regeneration of a whole region in the Punjab.
• A Decade of Appreciative Leadership: Thoughts and Reflections wisdom accumulated over time by one leader about the choiceful mindset of appreciative value-based leadership.
• New Leaders: How Conflict Transforms Into Distributed Leadership, Producing Organizational Fitness a compelling story of an industry's journey to find shared solutions.
• The Daily Disciplines and Practices of an Appreciative Leader one leader's summary of the specific practices to positively affect his leadership skills and abilities in a fast-paced world.
• Applying Strengths and AI to Westin Hotels an inspiring account of the employee engagement and culture shift achieved when leaders adopted a strengths approach to change.
• The Leadership Sweet Spot a high impact story about increased patient safety across a group of hospitals working together to control infections.
• Five Strategies of Appreciative Leadership the most up to date definition of the essential elements and strategies of Appreciative Leadership.