Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

Publication Title

Pausing at the Threshold: Opportunity Through, With, and For Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices

Pages

151-160

Abstract

We have been investigating how critical friendships develop and we found that our critical friendship evolved in ways that went beyond what is in the self-study teacher and teacher education practices (S-STEP) foundational research literature. We continue to wonder about the power of critical friendship for supporting individual transformation. This paper is an elaboration about the essence of critical friend intimacy and its complicity in influencing individual transformations by those in the relationship. We examined S-STEP literature to determine how critical friend intimacy is discussed and if others connected it to individual transformations. We found 13 refereed empirical S-STEP reports from the Studying Teacher Education journal about critical friendships for our interpretive qualitative study to address our research question. We found examples of critical friend intimacy within this literature, and we found evidence of others reporting connections between intimate critical friendships and individual transformations. However, the norms of S-STEP reporting disguise these examples and evidence. We share implications of this research and offer opportunities for future research.

ORCID

0000-0001-5396-0732 (Grant)

Original Publication Citation

Grant, M. R., & Kastberg, S. E. (2023). Critical friend intimacy and individual transformations. In A. Cameron-Standerford, B. Bergh, & C. U. Edge (Eds.), Pausing at the threshold: Opportunity through, with, and for self-study of teacher education practices (151-160). Equity Press. https://equitypress.org/pausing_at_the_thres/VVknwWWy

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