From Skepticism to Scholarship: Learning and Living Self-Study Research in a Doctoral Seminar

“What’s the Middle Ground? Am I Ever Going to be the Perfect Teacher?:” Self-Study of a Doctoral Student’s Acculturation Process

“…By analysing situations or events in her journal and engaging in critical-friend discussions, Shrehan realized she had noticeably changed throughout the process of self-study. In itself, this finding calls for more self-study research to investigate how future teacher educators' identities, experiences, and priorities change over time (Allen et al, 2016;Butler & Diacopoulos, 2016;Foot et al, 2014;Gregory et al 2017;Marin, 2014;McAnulty & Cuenca, 2014;Murphy et al 2014;Wiebke & Park Rogers, 2014). With regard to doctoral students becoming teacher educators, this is the first study known to us that contributes to the beginning body of knowledge that has emerged linked to a D-PETE student using self-study.…”

“…Teacher education doctoral students across a variety of disciplines, including science (Wiebke & Park Rogers, 2014), mathematics (Marin, 2014), elementary education (Allen, Park Rogers & Borowski, 2016), and curriculum and instruction (Foot, Alicia, Tollafield, & Allan, 2014;Gregory, Diacopoulos, Branyon, & Butler, 2017;McAnulty & Cuenca, 2014) have contributed to the knowledge base on beginning teacher educator doctoral students. Some S-STEP research has also been conducted by interdisciplinary groups of teacher education doctoral students (Murphy, McGlynn-Stewart & Ghafouri, 2014).…”

“…There were, however, few examples of selfstudy research conducted by D-PETE students for Shrehan to use in guiding her own inquiry (Richards & Ressler, 2016. As a result, she turned to a more general outlook of self-study conducted by teacher education doctoral students (e.g., Allen et al, 2016;Butler & Diacopoulos, 2016;Foot et al, 2014;Gregory et al, 2017;McAnulty & Cuenca, 2014;Murphy et al, 2014;Wiebke & Park Rogers, 2014). This highlighted the importance of establishing social connections and the benefits of collaborative relationships built through self-study.…”

“…Role balance can be achieved in collaborative research projects; faculty can acknowledge the personalities of their students and attempt to build relationships through increased communication methods. Furthurmore, we believe that self-study, particularly in group settings (Allen et al, 2016;Butler & Diacopoulos, 2016;Foot et al, 2014;Gregory et al, 2017;McAnulty & Cuenca 2014;Murphy et al, 2014;Wiebke & Park Rogers, 2014) can be an important part of this process and can increase support for one's emotional identity.…”

Introducing Self-Study in Quebec: The Challenges of Promoting S-STEP in the French Language

“…As Gregory et al (2017) have pointed out, most publications on self-studies describe the research process and the outcomes, while few explore how the researchers came to understand the research methodology and how to use it to explore and improve their practice. In their article, Gregory et al (2017) describe the process of learning about self-study through a doctoral seminar. The questions and concerns of these doctoral students were very similar to those of this self-study group in Quebec.…”