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 Making Connections 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 Making Connections 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 Making Connections 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 Making Connections 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 Making Connections Chapter 7: Developing Value for the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Research by Establishing Trustworthiness and Being Trustworthy Making Connections 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 Making Connections PAUSE: Comparison Of General Qualitative Research and Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Research Methodologies References Appendices Castle Conference Proceedings Readings for In-Of-For Practice Activity Working with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) Glossary of Some Terms