Being Self-Study Researchers in a Digital World: An Introduction

Abstract

Being self-study researchers in a digital world has reinvigorated our collective desire to understand what it is to teach about teaching in changing times. This introductory chapter sets the scene for exploring the possibilities for the self-study of teacher education practices contiguous with the advent of new and emerging digital technologies. As teacher education transforms and is transformed by such development, there is a corresponding transformation and expansion of research possibilities associated with immersion in an increasingly digital world. We consider how being ‘digital’ augments, enhances and problematizes our conventional methods of generating, collecting and making sense of data related to learning about how and why we teach about teaching.