In this paper, the authors present what they believe to be important elements of action research (AR) that emerged from their final feedback sessions with 13 teacher candidates in their program as they prepared for the professional presentations.
They found that considering these feedback sessions as mediation spaces
(1) empowers teacher candidates to externalize and deepen personal understandings of their research through dialogical discourse with expert others, and
(2) negotiate their power and emerging practitioner researcher identities.