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Self-study is an approach to the study of personal experience in a social context. What distinguishes self-study from many other methodologies for researching personal experience is that it focuses on the researcher’s own self and experience. Self-study research has so far mostly been initiated and conducted by teacher educators and teachers who study their selves “in action … within [their] educational contexts” (Hamilton, Smith, & Worthington, 2008, p. 17) with the aim of improving their own professional understanding and practice as well as contributing to public conversations about teaching and learning (see, for example, Kosnik, Beck, Freese, & Samaras, 2005; Loughran, Hamilton, LaBoskey, & Russell, 2004; Mitchell, Weber, & O’Reilly-Scanlon, 2005).
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Pithouse, K. (2011). Picturing the Self. In: Theron, L., Mitchell, C., Mitchell, C., Smith, A., Smith, A., Stuart, J. (eds) Picturing Research. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-596-3_3
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