Roth (Griffith U., Australia) helps researchers in education develop their competencies in first-person methods, in which researchers pay attention to their own experience learning as a guide for teaching others. He contends that the methods can be rigorous tools that go far beyond what is called phenomenology in science and mathematics education literature. For example he distinguishes between investigating discourse about emotion and investigating emotions themselves. His topics include vision and touching, tasting and smelling, memory, crisis and suffering as sources of learning, problem solving, and writing the research. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
