ABSTRACT
During a visit to the Academia art gallery in Venice, Tony’s then 7-year-old daughter Imogen was rather taken by Tintoretto’s painting entitled “Creation of the Animals”, depicting animals on the land, birds in the sky and fish in the sea overseen by an elderly God floating in the foreground. This chapter examines how both student and practising teachers can carry out practitioner research into their everyday practice towards developing that practice. The written product of this reflective inquiry comprises building a narrative layer in which the researcher acts as her own analyst. Emma was reviewing some situations in which she had been talking to her teaching colleagues as part of her masters research. In discussion with fellow course members, she had sought to characterise various aspects of her professional self. She mentioned things such as shyness, conscientiousness, independence, self-containedness, kindness, sincerity, etc.
