Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Just who do we think we are and how do we know this?: re-visioning pedagogical spaces for studying our teaching selves; Self-study through memory and the body; The pedagogy of shoes: clothing and the body in self-study; Heavy fuel: memoire, autobiography and narrative; Drawings as a research tool for self-study: an embodied method of exploring memories of childhood bullying; Self-study through literary and artistic inquiry; The monochrome frame: mural-making as a methodology for understanding 'self'
Using pictures at an exhibition to explore my teaching practicesSelf-study through an exploration of artful and artless experiences; Apples of change: arts-based methodology as a poetic and visual sixth sense; Inquiry through poetry: the genesis of self-study; Truth in fiction: seeing our rural selves; Reflection, life history and self-study; 'It was good to find out why': teaching drama planning through a self-study le
Summary
This book provides an invaluable resource for anyone undertaking practitioner research. Drawing upon diverse and specific examples of self-study it formulates a methodological framework for self-study in education
