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The experience has served to further increase my awareness of how I work and

challenged me to apply myself again and again in order to learn from experience, all the
while providing me with a sense of achievement and wellbeing.

My Values
Passion, Collaboration, Community and Responsibility are the educational values that

guided me through this action research. The process itself has helped me to clarify and
understand why these mean so much to me, and subsequently this reinforced my

commitment to bring them to my work. An example of feedback from my peer group on
the MEME programme from one of the social validity meetings is as follows and

reflects well on how I have stayed true to my values throughout this project:

‘Jimmy’s belief in the model is clear and this enhances the need for the research.
Jimmy’s values are well in line with what the GAA stands for.’
(Peer Feedback from Social Validity Meeting)

Most importantly, a greater understanding of my values is going to be very important to

me as I try to live a life in harmony with those values.

4.6 Summary

In this chapter I have taken you, the reader, through the sequence of events and
collaboration that comprised my production journey. I utilised the Educational

Entrepreneurial Approach to Action Research to conduct my enquiry (Crotty, 2014).

I have emphasised how my research is grounded in my values, passion and work

context as well as my belief in the power of narrative and interest in visual media.
Finally, I have documented the changes that have occurred in my video artefact, myself

and my workplace as a result of this research.

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