The chapters in this book essentially represent the efforts of the authors to present students' and teachers' lives and experiences in authentic ways. As expected, theoretical and empirical research is represented, and approaches range from the so-called scientific traditions of cognitive psychology to inductive approaches associated with phenomenographic naturalistic inquiry. The vast majority are small scale qualitative studies which rely upon combinations of interview, questionnaire, naturalistic observation, descriptive, biographical and autobiographical data presented as analytic description (case studies and vignettes).