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2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education pp 1–23Cite as

Ethics of Self-Study Research as a Legitimate Methodological Tradition

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In this chapter, I approach the ethics of self-study from the perspective of a legitimate methodological tradition that has a historically situated dialogue with common understandings and practices. From this standpoint, I examine three recursive ethical issues in self-study research: (1) struggles with our multiple identities as researchers; (2) tensions among and between collaborators; and (3) the vulnerability of a public-facing methodology. The stable dialogue within self-study literature of these three ethical issues both inspires confidence in the legitimacy of self-study research and also serves as a reminder to continue to expand the theoretical and methodological contours of self-study. In the final section of this chapter, I explore what ethical questions might emerge as the self-study community begins to navigate more critical theoretical and methodological approaches.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Brock University Faculty of Education, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

    Julian Kitchen

  2. School of Education, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology School of Education, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

    Amanda Berry

  3. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Faculty of Education, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Shawn Michel Bullock

  4. College of Education, Kent State University College of Education, Kent, OH, USA

    Alicia R. Crowe

  5. Dept. of Secondary and Special Education, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

    Monica Taylor

  6. School of Education, University of Iceland School of Education, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Cuenca, A. (2020). Ethics of Self-Study Research as a Legitimate Methodological Tradition. In: Kitchen, J., et al. 2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1710-1_14-1

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