Within our differences we must find respect and compassion for one another, and we only find this through authentic connection and practicing empathy.
Of equal importance is the wisdom, insight, connections and best practices they can share with you.
During the session, I was struck by a question from Curtis Ogden of Interaction Institute for Social Change which boiled down to "What's love got to do with it?" As it turns out, when making a connection between values and practices, love can play a central role.
The project has been working for several years with the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater (HCWW), and local authority, in rural districts of Upper Egypt, reaching thousands of families with water supply connections and better hygiene practices.
Native American students who succeed in college do so "in part because they stayed engaged in their programs of study, often by finding meaningful connections between tribal beliefs and practices and the values and goals of American colleges," but it can be difficult to find such connections in the STEM disciplines (Smith et al. 2014, p. 414).
Inclusion and the sense of belonging to families and peer groups was highly valued as a protective factor by participants, as was the support of positive role models and connections to cultural communities and practices.
Yet a profession encouraging longevity and dedication, not to mention lasting and significant human relationships, must have a basis in theory; we simply need more opportunities and support in seeing the connections between theory and practice.
For motivation purposes the subsequent main goals were followed: transparent connections between theory and practice, flexibility in studying possibilities, excellent final results in knowledge presentation and introduction into research activities.
Drawing on extant theorizing and research on reflective teaching, this paper discusses the impact of an innovative methods course designed around the activity of student teachers' reflections on their own classroom discourse, for their understandings of the connections between theory and practice.
Better connections between researchers and practice are another avenue which has been suggested as a way to improve translation of research to practice [ 38, 39].
