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This chapter offers an illustration of how Critical Praxis Research (CPR) accommodates who the researcher is as a person. As a doctoral student in search of a research topic, design, and methodology, the author explores issues of identity, purpose, and context. He discovers that research can be the study of the self, and he re-conceptualizes research as “me-search.” He then turns his attention to the story of the work he did as a veteran urban teacher mentoring Mr. Hoffman, a teacher new to urban schooling. The co-auto/ethnography that Mr. Hoffman and the author engage in explores the issues of identity, culture, and practice as it documents a 2-year mentoring relationship/process that was founded in postformal/postmodern critical theory. Together, mentor and mentee wrote the book of how they used critical pedagogy to co-create a new hybrid culture and learning community with their students and fostered a spirit of solidarity and collective responsibility.
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Kress, T.M. (2011). From Research to Me-Search. In: Critical Praxis Research. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1790-9_16
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