Abstract:
We are three teacher educators practicing selfstudy
and reflecting on its value to our students
while also exchanging our reflections with each
other. As with artists who come together in
schools of study in both individual and joint
exploration, we hope that our collaborative inquiry
will shed new light on our thinking and research
in teacher education program reform efforts. Our
intimacy and collaborative exchanges allowed us
each to think more deeply about the personal as
part of a community of self-study scholars.
We are at a critical point in our careers where we
strive for ethical and moral integrity in our research
to practice efforts as we reflect and study our own
teaching to better serve as a role model to our
students. For a decade we have redesigned our
teacher education programs. Although we do not
work in the same university, each of us has tried
to develop our research agenda based on a
certain set of beliefs. To what degree has our
research made a difference in our students’
learning? What challenges and changes are
similar and dissimilar across our programs? Each
of us is involved in teaching, administration, selfstudy,
and the development of innovative
programs. How have we changed our teaching
to be congruent with the program goals?
