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This chapter discusses two Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood research projects, based on partnerships between university academics (myself and others) and teachers, where reflection and reflective records formed the data gathering methodology, as well as generating our new understandings. The teachers, discussed in this chapter, describe their experiences with reflective writing in the two projects. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari, the use of reflective writing within partnership projects is reexamined.
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Duncan, J. (2013). Teacher Reflection in Early Years Partnership Research Projects: But It’s No Use Going Back to Yesterday, because I Was a Different Person Then (Says Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). In: Duncan, J., Conner, L. (eds) Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346889_8
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