ABSTRACT
This chapter examines in more detail the relationships and experiences that the five female scholar-teachers and I shared during the internship. Their voices and experiences, along with their final research reports and my interpretations and experiences, are all central to understanding the wide context for learning that existed in our lives and in our endeavors together. Our story reveals issues and events that provide a broader context for their research as well as for interpreting what they took away from their experiences of conducting research and participating in the internship. The foundations of our work together, how we related and what we experienced together as colleagues, provide the base from which to better understand the learning that went on in this situation, from both intern teacher and teacher educator perspectives. These foundations of learning signal these specific learnings for us, as well as suggest wider lessons for the fields of teaching, teacher research, and teacher education. A further discussion of the story surrounding considerations of defining the problem and method for the interns’ studies is the subject of chapter 9; the specific learnings from this experience are the subject of chapter 10; and a discussion of the wider lessons for the field from our story are the subject of chapter 11.
