The ‘Web of Life’ of the Rio de Janeiro Exploratory Practice Group

Abstract

Previous chapters have included examples of inclusive practitioner research conducted by teachers and learners in relatively isolated professional situations (from China, Hong Kong, and Israel), but most of our examples have been drawn from members of the Rio de Janeiro Exploratory Practice Group (henceforth the ‘Rio EP Group’ or ‘the Group’). This Group has for many years offered a powerful example of inclusive practitioner research. Indeed, it is principally in their work that the principles as well as the practices of EP have emerged and evolved. We therefore invited them to describe their work together, as a multi-voiced case study in sustained collegiality. Highlighting their voices here further underpins the principles of EP we have been advancing in this book. Their account is our Chapter 14.