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Being a Student of Teaching: Practitioner Research and Study Groups

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Although Dewey specifically refers to learning to teach in his cautionary statement, the words remain true for practicing teachers, the focus of this chapter. Students of teaching are, “those who are prepared to learn from teaching over the course of a lifetime … having opportunities for collaboration and reflection, questioning (and questioning [their] own questions), observation and inquiry” (Cochran-Smith, Foreword. In Bullough RV Jr, Gitlin AD Becoming a student of teaching: linking knowledge of production and practice, 2nd edn. RoutledgeFalmer, New York, pp viii–ix, 2001). Here we are concerned not with becoming a student of teaching, but with being a student of teaching.

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