ABSTRACT

Drawing upon diverse and specific examples of self-study, described here by the practitioners themselves, this unique book formulates a methodological framework for self-study in education.

This collection brings together a diverse and international range of self-studies carried out in teacher education, each of which has a different perspective to offer on issues of method and methodology, including:

* memory work
* fictional practice
* collaborative autobiography
* auto-ethnography
* phenomenology
* image-based approaches.

Such ethical issues likely to arise from self-study as informed consent, self-disclosure and crises of representation are also explored with depth and clarity.

As method takes centre stage in educational and social scientific research, and self-study becomes a key tool for research, training, practice and professional development in education, Just Who Do We Think We Are? provides an invaluable resource for anyone undertaking this form of practitioner research.

chapter Chapter 1|9 pages

Just who do we think we are … and how do we know this?

Re-visioning pedagogical spaces for studying our teaching selves

part I|36 pages

Self-study through memory andt he body

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

The pedagogy of shoes

Clothing and the body in self-study

chapter Chapter 3|12 pages

Heavy fuel

Memoire, autobiography and narrative

chapter Chapter 4|13 pages

Drawings as a research tool for self-study

An embodied method of exploring memories of childhood bullying

part 2|74 pages

Self-study through literary and artistic inquiry

chapter Chapter 5|9 pages

The monochrome frame

Mural-making as a methodology for understanding ‘self'

chapter Chapter 8|14 pages

Apples of change

Arts-based methodology as a poetic and visual sixth sense

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Inquiry through poetry

The genesis of self-study

chapter Chapter 10|10 pages

Truth in fiction

Seeing our rural selves

part 3|60 pages

Reflection, life history and self-study

chapter Chapter 11|8 pages

‘It was good to find out why'

Teaching drama planning through a self-study lens

chapter Chapter 12|11 pages

Speak for yourselves

Capturing the complexity of critical reflection

chapter Chapter 13|12 pages

Just where do I think I'm going?

Working with marginalized and disaffected youths and their self-study

chapter Chapter 14|14 pages

Pathlamp

A self-study guide for teacher research

chapter Chapter 15|13 pages

Teaching about teaching

The role of self-study

part 4|61 pages

(Re)positioning the self in and through self-study

chapter Chapter 16|10 pages

The sand diaries

Visions, vulnerability and self-study

chapter Chapter 17|13 pages

A queer path across the straight furrows of my field

A series of reflections

chapter Chapter Eighteen|12 pages

Self-study through narrative Interpretation

Probing lived experiences of educational privilege

chapter Chapter 19|13 pages

‘White female teacher arrives in native community with trunk and cat'

Using self-study to investigate tales of traveling White teachers

chapter Chapter 20|11 pages

Starting with the self

Reflexivity in studying women Teachers' lives in development