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On the Tension-Fraught Enterprise of Teaching Self-Study to Colleagues

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Teaching, Learning, and Enacting of Self-Study Methodology

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This chapter reports on the experiences of the author as he facilitated the self-study group featured in this section. Essentially the author led a group of his colleagues for more than 2 years in learning about self-study and considering its practical applications to their teaching/research endeavors. All of the participants in the group were teacher educators with experience in conducting research; however, none of them had any previous experience with self-study research. In addition to exploring the actual content and teaching methods employed with this diverse group of colleagues, this chapter also considers the various tensions the author felt in leading the group.

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    Jason K. Ritter

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  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Mieke Lunenberg

  3. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

    Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

  4. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Anastasia P. Samaras

  5. University of East London, London, United Kingdom

    Eline Vanassche

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Ritter, J.K. (2018). On the Tension-Fraught Enterprise of Teaching Self-Study to Colleagues. In: Ritter, J., Lunenberg, M., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Samaras, A., Vanassche, E. (eds) Teaching, Learning, and Enacting of Self-Study Methodology. Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8105-7_3

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