This article draws on case studies undertaken in postgraduate research at AUT University, Auckland. It seeks to address a number of issues related to heuristic inquiries employed by graphic design students who use autobiographical approaches when developing research-based theses. For this type of thesis, heuristics as a system of inquiry may…

The purpose of this study was to describe a group of graduate students who attended a self-education class and interpret their reactions using autobiographical case study methods and the researcher's subjective lens. The graduate course in self-education was designed to study self-education as a phenomenon of interest and to enable participants to…

Describes a study which examined personal teaching metaphors developed by secondary teachers in a graduate course for improving understanding of relationships between teaching theory and practice and factors like school context, subject matter domain, personal history, and teaching experience. Case studies found several themes confirming prior…