Two of the great North American rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, form the east and west borders of our state, and all of the nine tributary river systems within its borders were flooding at historic levels at the time we were writing this chapter. Since metaphor is one hallmark of our self-study method, river and tributary imagery lent themselves to a description of the origins of our method.
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East, K., Fitzgerald, L.M., Heston, M.L. (2009). Talking Teaching and Learning: Using Dialogue in Self-Study. In: Fitzgerald, L., Heston, M., Tidwell, D. (eds) Research Methods for the Self-study of Practice. Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9514-6_4
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