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3.1.8: How will this auto/biographic case study approach be deployed?"In processes of data gathering, we say, the aim is to gather data primarily in terms of thestudy of oneself, in order to show progress in the growth of one's own learning and howthat learning can influence future learning and action." (Whitehead and McNiff, 2006 p. 5)The intention of this study is to convert the apparently random acts of unconscious 'insiderparticipation' into a structured research and development process in the hope of pointing to aphenomenon I have chosen to call auto/pedagogy.This is a living theoretical process asindicated by the quotation that heads this sub-section. The method by which this is to beachieved is an adapted form of auto/biography because this appears to be the most pertinentexisting way of exploring a provisional and emergent phenomenon which, so far, only appears tobe the case in my career narrative.An important finding of Polanyi’s work was that “The avowed purpose of the exact sciences isto establish complete intellectual control over experience in terms of precise rules which can beformally set out and empirically tested” (Polanyi, 1962 p. 18).He states “that completeobjectivity as usually attributed to the exact sciences is a false ideal” (Polanyi, ibid). Moreover,some hard scientists themselves point to the necessity of using case studies in somecircumstances. “One reason is that the ultimate units of ecological theory (e.g., organisms) arefew in number as compared with the ultimate units in other scientific theories (e.g., molecules orsubatomic particles), and they cannot easily be replicated” (Schraeder-Frechette and McCoy,1994 p. 230). Interpreting this observation is simple and transcribing it into a metaphor for mymethodology even more so. The unit of theory with which I am working is small – my own selfreferencedexperience(s). Thus, I am not seeking to establish complete intellectual control overauto/pedagogy, rather I am trying to generate some theory in support of the hypothesis.171Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)