Self-Study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research: Theory, Methodology, and Practice (Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Book 8)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Arriving at Self-Study....Pages 1-9 The Self, the Other, and Practice in Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Research....Pages 11-37 Pause....Pages 38-46 Questions of Practice....Pages 47-65 Pause....Pages 66-77 Context and Dialogue in the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices....Pages 79-97 Pause....Pages 98-102 Data Collection Methods in S-STTEP Research....Pages 103-138 Pause....Pages 139-145 Data Analysis and Interpretation in S-STTEP Research....Pages 147-157 Developing Value for S-STTEP Research by Establishing Trustworthiness and Being Trustworthy....Pages 159-167 Pause....Pages 168-174 Pragmatic and Theoretic Conclusions for Conducting S-STTEP Research....Pages 175-182 Pause....Pages 183-186 Back Matter....Pages 187-247 By Stefinee Pinnegar And Mary Lynn Hamilton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 187-202) And Indexes.