Making a Difference in Teacher Education Through Self-Study Studies

The challenges teacher educators are now facing are of a different nature from those of the past few decades. They have taken on an urgency and a magnitude not witnessed before. Strict government control of education is increasing, the social problems in

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Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Volume 2 Series Editor John L oughran, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Advisory Board Mary Lynn Hamilton, University of Kansas, USA Ruth Kane, Massey University College of Education, New Zealand Geert Kelchtermans, University of Leuven, Belgium Fred Korthagen, IVLOS Institute of Education, The Netherlands oTm Russell , Queen’s University, Canada

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATION THROUGH SELF-STUDY Studies of Personal, Professional and Program Renewal

Edited by

Clare Kosnik Stanford University, U.S.A.

Clive Beck University of Toronto, Canada

Anne R. Freese University of Hawaii, U.S.A. and

Anastasia P. Samaras George Mason University, U.S.A.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-13

1-4020-3527-6 (HB) 1-4020-3528-4 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3527-2 (HB) 978-1-4020-3528-9 (e-book)

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Dedication

For our parents, Georgina and Henry Madott, Sylvia and Lawrence Beck, Kathleen and Ken Reilley, Magdalene and Savvas Pantelides

Table of Contents Series Editor Introduction - John Loughran Foreword - Ken Zeichner

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Introduction

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Acknowledgements

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Contributing Authors

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Section One – Personal Renewal Section Editors: Anne Freese and Clive Beck

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Chapter 1 Tom Russell – How 20 Years of Self-Study Changed My Teaching

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Chapter 2 Lesley Coia and Monica Taylor – From the Inside Out, and the Outside In: Co/Autoethnography as a Means of Professional Renewal Chapter 3 Allan Feldman – Using an Existential Form of Reflection to Understand My Transformation as a Teacher Educatorr

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Chapter 4 The Arizona Group: Peggy Placier, Stefinee Pinnegar, Mary Lynn Hamilton, and Karen Guilfoyle – Exploring the Concept of Dialogue in the Self-Study of Teaching Practices 51 Chapter 5 Anne R. Freese – Transformation Through Self-Study: The Voices of Preservice Teachers

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Section Two – Professional Renewal Section Editor: Anastasia P. Samaras

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Chapter 6 Renee T. Clift f , Patricia Brady,, Raull A. Mora,, Soo Joung g Choi, and Jason Stegemoller – From Self-Study to Collaborative Self-Study to Collaborative Self-Study of Collaboration: The evolution of a Research earch Team 85 Chapter 7 Vince Ham and Ronnie Davey – Is Virtual Teaching, Real Teaching? Learnings from Two Self-Studies

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Chapter 8 Claudia Mitchell – In My Own Handwriting: Textual Evidence and Self-Study

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viii Chapter 9 Peggy Placier, Karen S. Cockrell, Suzanne Burgoyne, Sharon Welch, Helen Neville