Where do teacher educators find spaces and places for research, especially given their increasingly busy lives and all the competing demands on their time? This was the question that five of us, all working in a teacher education department, asked of ourselves at the outset of our self-study.
The study used visual methods. This was largely because one of us, Morwenna, had been so impressed by what she had learnt from using such methods in two earlier self-studies. While working in Nottingham, England, she had participated in collaborative self-studies using visual methods in 2004 and again in 2006. At the end of 2006 she moved to a new job in Edinburgh, Scotland, where, in 2007, she instigated a third visually based self-study, which is reported here.
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Griffiths, M., Malcolm, H., Williamson, Z. (2009). Faces and Spaces and Doing Research. In: Fitzgerald, L., Heston, M., Tidwell, D. (eds) Research Methods for the Self-study of Practice. Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9514-6_7
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