ABSTRACT
You may have picked up this book because with a title like Reconceptualizing Teaching Practice: Self-study in Teacher Education, you were hoping for answers. You may have expected to find another treatise on how teacher education ought to be reformed or could be reformed. Others of you, focusing on the second segment of the title-Self-study in Teacher Education-may have picked up this book expecting to find an explanation of self-study research methodology. Ironically, we think all of you will be happy with the chapters found in this book. The structure of this book and the breadth of the chapters’ contents serve both sets of readers. The individual chapters are good examples of self-study research because the context for the studies is teacher education practice. Collectively, the sections provide insight into teacher education as an enterprise and capture the promise of improvement in teacher education. More fundamentally, these studies exist at the juncture between research and practice. As a result, reading this book provides answers for reconceptualizing teaching practice and for studying the teaching practices of teacher educators.
