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Self -Study of Teacher Education Practices

HERSTMONCEUX CONFERENCE

August 4-8, 1996

The conference was sponsored by the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices special interest group of the American Educational Research Association. Herstmonceux Castle is the International Study Centre of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

We are building here a collection of the papers presented at the conference, as they appeared in the Conference Proceedings, edited by Janet Richards of the University of Southern Mississippi and produced by Tom Russell of Queen's University and Alan Hyde of Hyde Publications, Bournemouth, UK.

"The Official Conference Photograph"
August 7, 1996

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• The Context for Change in Teacher Education in Alberta
  Robert O'Reilly
• Self-Study Unique to an Asian American
  Linda K. Oda
• Exploring MOO Environments for Self-Study
  Lisa DeMeulle, Rebecca S. Anderson, and John M. Johnston
• Professional Teaching Portfolio: A Catalyst for Rethinking Education
  Judith Johnson, Jeff Kaplan, and Susan Marie Marsh
• Emergent Conceptions of Subject Integration in Teacher Education: An Action Research Study
  Sandra Blenkinsop and Penelope Bailey
• The Politics of Epistemology and the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices
  Ardra Cole and Gary Knowles
• The Other Side of Silence: Toward a Theory of Listening
  Jean McNiff
• On Being Both a Researcher and a Dean: Listening to Voices of Authority
  Rena Upitis
• Navigating Through a Maze of Contraindications: A Conversation on Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform
  The "Arizona Group": Karen Guilfoyle, Mary Lynn Hamilton, Stefinee Pinnegar, & Peggy Placier
• Building a Teacher Education Community: Combining Electronic Mail with Face-to-Face Interactions
  Rena Upitis and Tom Russell
• Can I (as a living contradiction) Join the We in Ardra Cole’s (1996) Question and Can You and I Help Each Other to Take Forward Our Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices?
  Jack Whitehead
• Turning to the Artistic: Developing an Enlightened Eye by Creating Teaching Self-Portraits
  Janet Richards
• On Liberation Not Just Love: A Collective Self-Study of Three Teacher Educators Exploring the Meaning of Their Support for a Group of Special Needs Teachers
  Pam Lomax, Moyra Evans, and Zoe Parker
• Learning through Self-Study: Exploring the Development of Knowledge
  Jeff Northfield and John Loughran
• Coming From Different Angles With Different Agendas: How Do We Change Our Perceptions Whilst Holding Firm To Our Beliefs?
  Pat D'Arcy
• Layers of Learning: A Cross-Institutional Self-Study of Several Teacher Educators’ Action Research Projects and the Influence of the Group on Those Projects
  Vicki Kubler LaBoskey, Katharine Davies Samway, and Sara Garcia
• What Might We Learn about Teaching by Collecting "Data" about Emotions that Teachers Experience in Connection with their Teaching?
  Fred Lighthall and Maureen Lighthall
• Understanding the Experience of Instructional Development
  Susan Wilcox
• Facilitating and Supporting Action Research by Teachers and Principals: Self-Study of a Superintendent’s Role
  Jackie Delong
• Self-Study and the Development of Collective Knowledge
  Howard Smith

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