Teacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries. Our greatest potential for influence is through developing relationships with others in our practice. Our work is fundamentally relational and emotional. We are obligated to the teachers we teach and the public students they teach. Our practice exists in the midst of experience, conflicting and often hostile boundaries, and between what we know from research and what we understand from practice. Self-study of practice invites researchers to embrace the hectic and fragmented territory of practice as the space for study.
This book educates those who would like to explore practice in the methodology of self-study. It provides both a pragmatic and theoretic guide. It grounds the research in ontology and establishes dialogue as the inquiry process. It supports researchers through the use of frameworks to guide research and explication of strategies for conducting it.

Preface

Making Connections

Chapter 1: Arriving at self-study

Making Connections

Chapter 2: The self, the Other and Practice in Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher

Education Practices Research

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PAUSE: Introduction of Framework-For-Inquiry and Framework-For-Analysis Chart

Inquiry Planner

Inquiry Analysis Tool

Mary Lynn's Example Planner

Chapter 3: Questions of Practice

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PAUSE: Situating Self-Study Within the Terrain of Research

Chapter 4: Context and Dialogue in the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education

Practices Research

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Exploring Dialogue as a Foundation of Knowing Activity

PAUSE: Research Design - Can You Identify A Self-Study?

Characteristics of Research Design Activity

Chapter 5: Data Collection in the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education

Practices Research

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In-of-for Practice Activity

PAUSE: Reconsideration of Frameworks for Inquiry and Analysis

Chapter 6: Data Analysis and Interpretation in the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher

Education Practices Research

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Chapter 7: Developing Value for the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education

Practices Research by Establishing Trustworthiness and Being Trustworthy

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PAUSE: Reexamination Of the Frameworks and Presentation of Study

Chapter 8: Pragmatic and Theoretical Conclusions for Conducting Self-Study of

Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Research

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PAUSE: Comparison Of General Qualitative Research and Self-Study of Teaching and

Teacher EducationPractices Research Methodologies

References

Appendices

Castle Conference Proceedings Readings for In-Of-For Practice Activity

Working with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

Glossary of Some Terms