Let's Dance is an account of a Self-Other ethnography on educational relations in higher education. It is an example of reflective practitioner research from a critical relational perspective and, at the same time, a reflection on reflective practitioner research. Author Loes Houweling researches her own practice and explores the possibilities of developing educational relations in more collaborative learning relations, as both an educator of students in a Master's program in pedagogy, and as a doctoral student to her supervisors. The title Let's Dance refers to the metaphor of the Argentine tango, which recurs throughout the text. The author uses the metaphor to illustrate educational relations, as well as to question these relations. The book opens up dominant perspectives and creates other Self-Other relations and, likewise, other educational relations. Self-Other ethnography is proposed as reflective research in which the researcher invites Others, including other selves, to dance. Not only does Loes Houweling recommend Self-Other ethnography, she brings it into practice. She offers to the readers the opportunity to reflect on their own relational practice, in which they might be constructed or construct themselves as educator, as student, as manager in higher education, or as researcher.
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