Many thanks for the invitation to write an introduction to your collection of writings. You can access my first draft here. I've produced the introduction solely for accessing through the internet. It can easily be amended for a hardcopy collection of the writings, but I'm hoping that you will see the benefit of a web-based production because of the ease with which we can set up interconnecting branching networks of communications. It may already be possible to create links with teacherresearch.net with Sarah to access some of the accounts that are on Sarah's page and missing from actionresearch.net.

The draft introduction is informed by the notes I produced for our session on the 15th April 2003 on How do I make sense of my educational influence in tutoring the educational enquiries of teacher-educators? An educational enquiry.

I hope you enjoyed the visit the Brislington Training School Website at

http://pathways2002.uwe.ac.uk/trainingschool/.

and will find useful the updates on

http://www.actionresearch.net

What I'm hoping the introduction to your collection of writings will provide is a better understanding of the connection I'm making between your educational enquiries and those that I see going on in a range of national and international contexts that include the British Educational Research Association and the American Educational Research Association. In particular I'll relate your enquiries to those in the self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) of AERA and to ideas in Educational Researcher, a publication of AERA. You also might like to browse through the papers in Teaching Today for Tomorrow and the papers in the Ontario Action Researcher. You could certainly submit your masters assignments to either of these Journals.