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Introducing Self-Study in Quebec: The Challenges of Promoting S-STEP in the French Language

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2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education

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Abstract

The self-study of teacher education practices is largely unknown among French-speaking teacher educators in Quebec, Canada, because there are almost no publications of self-study research in the French language. This chapter recounts how one researcher introduced the self-study of teacher education practices to colleagues in a French language university in Quebec. The chapter describes the challenges of making this methodology intelligible and compelling to colleagues who carry out research in a language where self-study as a research methodology is unknown. Exploring how colleagues came to understand the potential benefits of self-study of teacher education practices for teacher educators helped to redefine and clarify the importance of self-study for the author.

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  1. Faculté d’éducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

    Lynn Thomas

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  1. Faculty of Education, Brock University Faculty of Education, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

    Julian Kitchen

  2. School of Education, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology School of Education, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

    Amanda Berry

  3. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Faculty of Education, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Shawn Michel Bullock

  4. College of Education, Kent State University College of Education, Kent, OH, USA

    Alicia R. Crowe

  5. Dept. of Secondary and Special Education, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

    Monica Taylor

  6. School of Education, University of Iceland School of Education, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir

  7. Faculté d’éducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Lynn Thomas

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  1. School of Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir

  2. Faculté d’éducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Lynn Thomas

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Thomas, L. (2020). Introducing Self-Study in Quebec: The Challenges of Promoting S-STEP in the French Language. In: Kitchen, J., et al. 2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1710-1_48-1

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