Cultivating Self-Study: Developing a Discourse to Better Understand a Particular Culture

This chapter describes the development of self-study in teacher education practices in Iceland. Narratives of our development as teachers, teacher educators, and researchers, individually and collectively, are representative for our route to the creation of a self-study community. Particular attention is paid to discourses about teacher education practices. We give insights into how we have developed scholarly terms in our native language to be able to discuss within our community of practice the theoretical and methodological approach we have adopted in researching our own practice. Analyzing our vision, values, and beliefs helped us gain an understanding of our professional identities and become active change agents within our professional lives as we developed self-study of teacher education practices.