The four editors, teacher educators at the University of Regina, are involved with collaborative projects locally and internationally. Their interest in collaboration continues to grow as they participate in learning communities in their professional and personal lives.

"This book infuses the solid scholarly treatment of collaboration with all the vitality, complexity, uncertainty, and fulfillment which is experienced by those who try to work collaboratively. The different contexts of the collaborative relationships being analyzed are described in enough detail to enable the readers to imagine them and make connections to their own experiences, which provides an important backdrop for understanding the more abstract and theoretical discussions." — Linda LaRocque, Simon Fraser University"I like the book's use of character; real people are doing the writing and real people are found as participants. It also showed the spirit of people trying to work together in different settings—everyone is so earnest about giving a positive tone to the book. " — Michael Connelly, University of Toronto

• ForewordD. Jean ClandininAcknowledgmentsProloguePart One: Departure Points1 The Collaborative Lens: A New Look at an Old Research StudyPhyllis Kapuscinski2 Collaboration: An Epistemological ShiftMargaret Olson3 Metaphors of Interrelatedness: Principles of CollaborationHelen StewartPart Two: Rethinking Mutuality and Negotiation4 Rethinking Mutual Goals in School-University CollaborationJoyce Castle6 Negotiating Collaboration for Professional Growth: A Case of ConsultationMary Hookey, Shelley Neal, and Zoe Donoahue6 Practitioner and Researcher Perspectives in Teacher Research and the Construction of KnowledgeJanet Blond and Kathie Webb7 Who's Important … Here Anyway?: Co-Constructing Research Across CulturesLynn McAlpine and Martha Crago8 Learning Collaboration: Research in a First Nations Teacher Education ProgramLinda Goulet and Brian AubichonPart Three: Communities of Reflective Practice9 Collaboration in the Construction of Professional Knowledge: Finding Answers in Our Own RealityMary Beattie10 Making Sense of Mathematics Within Collaborative CommunitiesMhairi ("Vi") Maeers and Lorri Robison11 Collaborative Conversations at the University: Creating a Pedagogical SpaceHelen Christiansen and Janet Devitt12 Creating Reciprocal Relationships in Language Arts and Science: A Collaborative Exploration of Subject Area IntegrationSandra Blenkinsop and Penelope Bailey13 Mentoring as Collaboration: Shaping an Academic LifeKarne Kozolanka and Bert HorwoodPart Four: Collaborative Partnerships and Projects14 School-University Research Partnership: In Search of the EssenceSusan Drake and Jan Basaraba15 The Meaning of Collaboration: Redefining Pedagogical Relationships in Student TeachingDavid Friesen16 Between Two Worlds: University Expectations and Collaborative Research RealitiesDebra Schroeder and Kathie Webb17 The Same but Different: Classroom-Based Collaborative Research and the Work of ClassroomsJeff Orr18 Are We Partners Yet? From Institutional Agreement to Personal PowerCaroline Krentz and Beth WarkentinPart Five: Looking Back and Looking Ahead19 Making the ConnectionsHelen Christiansen, Linda Goulet, Caroline Krentz, and Mhairi MaeersEpilogueReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex