At the Elbow of Another is about teaching and learning to teach written from the perspectives
and experiences of two educators who teach and in so doing learn to teach. Teaching and
learning to teach at the elbows of other teachers (including ourselves) provide us with new and
different understandings and allow us to describe a different epistemology of teaching. We
adopt a first-person perspective on teaching sometimes our own and at other times that of
peers but through the eyes of coparticipants engaged in an activity with the same primary
intention of assisting students to learn. Throughout this book we focus on teaching and
learning to teach at different stages of the career ladder and explore different ways of
conceiving the roles of researchers supervisors evaluators cooperating teachers and «new
teachers.»
