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This concluding chapter provides a summary of the themes in the previous chapters, and comments on our own developing understandings of the Exploratory Practice principles. We bring together our experiences as mentors, researchers, teachers, and learners engaging in practitioner research. We consider the growing impact of Exploratory Practice as it provides an original and rigorous form for practitioners to develop new ideas and insights relevant for the field of professional development in language education.
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Dikilitaş, K., Hanks, J. (2018). Conclusion: Developing in/through Exploratory Practice. In: Dikilitaş, K., Hanks, J. (eds) Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75735-3_11
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