Self-study is inherently collaborative. Such collaboration provides
transparency, validity, rigor and trustworthiness in conducting
self-study. However, the ways in which these collaborations are enacted
have not been sufficiently addressed in the self-study literature. This
book addresses these gaps in the literature by placing critical
friendship, collaborative self-study and community of practice at the
forefront of the self-study of teaching. It highlights these forms of
collaboration, how the collaboration was developed and enacted, the
challenges and tensions that existed in the collaboration, and how
practice and identity developed through the use of these forms of
collaboration. The chapters serve as exemplars of enacting these forms
of collaboration and provide researchers with an additional base of
literature to draw upon in their scholarly writing, teaching of
self-study, and their enactment of collaborative self-study spaces.