Professor Kath Green 1946-2007

Professor Kath Green1946-2007

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)

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial

Photos from Kath’s Memorial