Central to caring professions such as teaching is the need to notice and
be sensitive to the experiences of pupils and teachers. Starting from
this position, Researching Your Own Practice demonstrates that in
order to develop your professional practice you must first develop your
own sensitivities and awareness. One must be attuned to fresh
possibilities when they are needed and be alert to such a need through
awareness of what is happening at any given time.
By giving a full explanation of this theory and a guide to its
implementation, this book provides a practical approach to becoming more
methodical and systematic in professional development. It also gives the
reader a basis for turning professional development into practitioner
research, as well as giving advice on how noticing can be used to
improve any research, or be used as a research paradigm in its own
right.
The discipline of noticing is a groundbreaking approach to professional
development and research, based upon noticing a possibility for the
future, noticing a possibility in the present moment and reflecting back
on what has been noticed before in order to prepare for the future. John
Mason, one of the discipline's most authoritative exponents, provides us
here with a clear, persuasive and practical guide to its understanding
and implementation.
