ABSTRACT
Sam
In the chapter which follows, the three of us (Sandra — Sam — Hollingsworth, Marion Dadds and Janet Miller) explore self examination and personal change as salient outcomes of action research-outcomes that broach varying cultures and contexts of action research. We attempt to capture the complexities between the experiences of engaging in action research, the shifting results of those experiences and appropriate means of representing them. We initially explored this topic from our individual biographical and cultural perspectives as letters to friends interested in action research, but as we collaborated internationally in the redrafting process, common themes emerged across our letters. Thus, in a genre which lingers between the cracks between an academic essay and a personal letter (Bell-Scott, 1994), we raise questions about:
