ABSTRACT
This book has been first and foremost one that has asked us, as those engaged in one form of practitioner research or another, ‘How can we best conduct ourselves in ways that do justice to our practice and our profession?’. Variously, we have been asked to consider such issues as: fairness; relationships; thoughts and habits; participation and representation; and, inevitably, power. We have been confronted by complex dilemmas that require us to employ a kind of reflexive intelligence (that is, an intelligence that not only reflects upon phenomena, but also critically examines where and how our beliefs about those phenomena have come about) when unravelling them and weighing them up. There is a recognition throughout the chapters that practitioner research is contingent upon the contexts in which it is undertaken; that what may be appropriate in one setting may require a different resolution in another.
