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Just Who Do We Think We Are? » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Just Who Do We Think We Are? by Claudia Mitchell

Authors: Claudia Mitchell (Editor), Kathleen O'Reilly (Editor), Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon
ISBN-13: 9780415298735, ISBN-10: 0415298733
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Claudia Mitchell

Claudia Mitchell is Professor and Chair in the School of Education at KwaZulu-Natal University. Sandra Weber is Professor of Education and a Fellow at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon is a faculty member of the University of Regina in western Canada.

Book Synopsis

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.

1	Just who do we think we are... and how do we know this? : re-visioning pedagogical spaces for studying our teaching selves	1
2	The pedagogy of shoes : clothing and the body in self-study	13
3	Heavy fuel : memoire, autobiography and narrative	22
4	Drawings as a research tool for self-study : an embodied method of exploring memories of childhood bullying	34
5	The monochrome frame : mural-making as a methodology for understanding 'self'	49
6	Using pictures at an exhibition to explore my teaching practices	58
7	Self-study through an exploration of artful and artless experiences	69
8	Apples of change : arts-based methodology as a poetic and visual sixth sense	81
9	Inquiry through poetry : the genesis of self-study	95
10	Truth in fiction : seeing our rural selves	111
11	'It was good to find out why' : teaching drama planning through a self-study lens	123
12	Speak for yourselves : capturing the complexity of critical reflection	131
13	Just where do I think I'm going? : working with marginalized and disaffected youths and their self-study	142
14	Pathlamp : a self-study guide for teacher research	154
15	Teaching about teaching : the role of self-study	168
16	The sand diaries : visions, vulnerability and self-study	183
17	A queer path across the straight furrows of my field : a series of reflections	193
18	Self-study through narrative interpretation : probing lived experiences of educational privilege	206
19	'White female teacher arrives in native community with trunk and cat' : using self-study to investigate tales of traveling white teachers	218
20	Starting with the self : reflexivity in studying women teachers' lives in development	231