ABSTRACT
This chapter reports a study of the relationships among ten individuals (five females, five males) who met seven times in six months while they were engaged in personal self-study projects. As they evolved, the purposes of this study were to explore: (a) the relationships among individuals engaged in their own selfstudy projects, and (b) the development of collective knowledge when these same individuals met as a group. Self-study researchers speak of the importance of sharing their information with others, but how might this sharing best be achieved? What group conditions support both individual and collective enterprises when the group focus involves self-study in a teacher education setting? This ‘study of self-study’ sought to capture in part the influences that exist between the individual mind and the collective socio-cultural surround that continuously shapes, and is shaped by, the thoughts and activities of its individual members (see Bohm, 1994).
