ABSTRACT
In this section of the book we present two chapters with cases. Chapter 9 contains cases of 10 faculty who use journals in their classrooms and chapter 10 contains cases of 9 higher education faculty, graduate students, and administrators who use journals in their professional lives. Because these cases are derived from interviews and depict the stories of journal use by individual faculty, they offer details that are missing from the standard research format. They use what Clandinin and Connelly describe as “personal practical knowledge” (1998, p. 150), knowledge that is embedded in practice, or what Brookfield (1990) would call theory in use rather than espoused theory.
