Questions of Practice

We experience our practice as teacher educators in a holistic way, constantly aware of the layers and that our lives and our various roles intertwine: We are faculty members, researchers, teachers, members of departments, confidants, community members, lovers, friends, sons, daughters, and/or, perhaps, parents. Stern’s (2004) notion of the present moment. A conception of the practice on which S-STTEP research can be based, suggests that moment to moment, as we become conscious or nonconscious (that is, as we move between states of awareness regarding our actions and states where we enact routines intentionally or automatically), these roles, our knowledge from them, and our responsibilities within them surface – seldom individually, usually collectively, and often in multiple ways, usually intertwined with each other.