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Polyvocal Professional Learning through Self-Study Research

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Editors:
  1. Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

    1. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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  2. Anastasia P. Samaras

    1. George Mason University, USA

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  • This book builds on, and extends, the existing body of work on self-study research
  • It offers an extensive and in-depth scholarly exploration of the how and why
  • It shows the impact of polyvocal professional learning through context-specific, practitioner-led inquiry

Part of the book series: Professional Learning (PROFL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Power of “We” for Professional Learning

    • Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Anastasia P. Samaras
    Pages 1-20

  3. Work Gloves and a Green Sea Turtle

    • David P. Evans, Heipua Ka‘Ōpua, Anne Reilley Freese
    Pages 21-37

  4. A Dialogue on Supporting Self-Study Research in the Context of Dutch Teacher Education

    • Amanda Berry, Janneke Geursen, Mieke Lunenberg
    Pages 39-55

  5. Confronting the Hearing Teacher in Deaf Education

    • Karen Rut Gísladóttir, Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir
    Pages 57-73

  6. Jackie and Me, Jackie and Us

    • Claudia Mitchell, Fatima S. Khan
    Pages 75-91

  7. A Technology-Enhanced Self-Study of Reversible Mentorship in a Modern Language Programme

    • Cristina M. Hernández Gil De Lamadrid, Esperanza Román Mendoza
    Pages 93-109

  8. Duality in Practice and Mentorship of an English Learner Instructional Coach

    • Delia E. Racines, Anastasia P. Samaras
    Pages 111-125

  9. Creating a Culture of Inquiry in Music Teacher Education

    • Ann Marie Stanley, Colen M. Conway
    Pages 127-143

  10. Learning about Co-Flexivity in a Transdisciplinary Self-Study Research Supervision Community

    • Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Nithi Muthukrishna, Daisy Pillay, Linda Van Laren, Theresa Chisanga, Thenjiwe Meyiwa et al.
    Pages 145-171

  11. Multiple Narrators

    • Arvinder Kaur Johri
    Pages 173-195

  12. Interweavings, Interfaces and Intersections

    • Delysia Norelle Timm, Joan Lucy Conolly
    Pages 197-214

  13. Integrating First, Second and Third Person Research to Lead the Creation of a Learning Organisation

    • Joan Walton, Nigel Harrisson
    Pages 215-230

  14. Breathing Under Water

    • Anastasia P. Samaras, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Theresa Chisanga, Joan Lucy Conolly, Lynne Scott Constantine, Thenjiwe Meyiwa et al.
    Pages 231-252

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 253-266
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About this book

"Polyvocal Professional Learning through Self-Study Research illustrates the power of “we” for innovative and authentic professional learning. The 33 contributors to this book include experienced and emerging self-study researchers, writing in collaboration, across multiple professions, academic disciplines, contexts, and continents. These authors have noted and reviewed each other’s chapters and adapted their contributions to generate a polyvocal conversation that significantly advances scholarship on professional learning through self-study research. Building on, and extending, the existing body of work on self-study research, the book offers an extensive and in-depth scholarly exploration of the how, why, and impact of professional learning through context-specific, practitioner-led inquiry. The chapters illustrate polyvocal professional learning as both phenomenon and method, with the original research that is presented in every chapter adding to the forms of methodological inventiveness that have been developed and documented within the self-study research community.
“This unique book represents an inspiring step forward in self-study research. Authors from various continents provide evidence of how the “I” can be strengthened through the “we” perspective, showing convincingly how polyvocality, transdisciplinarity, and an intercultural approach deepen professional learning. This powerful book offers important new insights for the methodology of self-study, with an impact beyond teachers and teacher educators.”
Fred A. J. Korthagen, Professor Emeritus at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
“A fascinating set of chapters illustrate the importance of many lenses and many voices when studying one’s practice. Each chapter testifies that self-study and its ties to improvement through posing thoughtful questions, collecting and analyzing relevant data, and interrogating the interpretation of one’s analysis of self are global and cross-disciplinary. This book is a must-read!”
Renée T. Clift, Professor and Associate Dean, University of Arizona, USA"


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

  • George Mason University, USA

    Anastasia P. Samaras

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Polyvocal Professional Learning through Self-Study Research

  • Editors: Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Anastasia P. Samaras

  • Series Title: Professional Learning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-220-2

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-220-2Published: 30 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 266

  • Topics: Education, general

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