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Self-Study Within and Across Disciplines

Come Together, Learn Together, Change Together

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2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education

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Abstract

Self-study researchers focus on improvement through the development of a deeper understanding of practice. The subtitle of this chapter, “Come Together, Learn Together, Change Together,” embodies the essence of this process. As a field we have a history of continually coming together to learn and change. Crossing boundaries and engaging with a wide variety of disciplinary knowledge, perspectives, and approaches is a way for us to continue to extend self-study research. In this chapter, I explore the potential of discipline-focused self-study to contribute to understanding and improving practice. I highlight how the chapters in the section that follows provide examples of how disciplinary knowledge and skills enrich our understanding of phenomena. At the end of the chapter, I provide examples to contemplate regarding how we could use disciplinary knowledge and perspectives to frame and reframe problems of practice based on Schwab’s (1983) commonplaces for curriculum decision-making.

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    Alicia R. Crowe

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  1. Faculty of Education, Brock University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Julian Kitchen

  2. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Amanda Berry

  3. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Shawn Michael Bullock

  4. College of Education, Kent State University College of Education, Kent, OH, USA

    Alicia R. Crowe

  5. Dept. of Secondary and Special Education, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

    Monica Taylor

  6. School of Education, University of Iceland School of Education, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir

  7. Faculté d’éducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Lynn Thomas

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  1. College of Education, Health and Human Services, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

    Alicia R Crowe

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Crowe, A.R. (2020). Self-Study Within and Across Disciplines. In: Kitchen, J., et al. 2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1710-1_26-1

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