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Using a personal, narrative style, it explores one teachercandidate's reflections about her learning with a Grade 4 student. The study was part of an innovative, inquiry-driven collaboration between school and university, and occurred during a course about teaching language and literacy in the early years (kindergarten to Grade 4) at the University of Manitoba. The student’s comments suggest how the integration of theory and practice can be facilitated when teacher education makes theory explicit, and when a teacher candidate has opportunities to reflect, experiment and dialogue actively about theory in action.  \nI am surprised my thinking could have changed in such a short period of time. Now that I have been through this literacy inquiry from start to finish, I can see all the holes, all the wrong turns, all the missed connections. Not that my self-reflection is entirely pessimistic-I simply feel a little wiser from having had the chance to actually live in the skin of a language arts teacher. I appreciate the benefit of being able to reflect in depth on this teaching experience-to look back on the progress of my thinking as I tried to figure out where Bradley and I were and where we wanted to be. As I make my way down the road to becoming a teacher, this reflection will be an interesting reference point for me. Although, I know that the realizations and questions I have now may seem quaint or odd come next term.  \nThis passage is from Melissa's final written reflection on six, two-hour sessions she spent with Bradley, a Grade 4 student. Melissa had collaboratively negotiated an inquiry-based literacy study (see Short, Harste, with Burke, 1996; Lindfors, 1999; Short, 1999; Serebrin, Long & Egawa, 2002; Serebrin, 2003; Mills, O'Keefe & Jennings, 2004) with Bradley, as part of her Language and Literacy teacher education course at the University of Manitoba. Through their collaborative study Bradley and Melissa both inquired into and learned about language and literacy processes, while at the same time they used these processes to explore topics of genuine interest and meaningfulness to them. When she composed this reflection, Melissa was an articulate teacher candidate in one of two second-year Early Years cohorts. The 65 Early Years teacher candidates had been paired with a Grade 3 or 4 child at a local school for one of their two Language and Literacy classes per week (classes met on different days depending on the cohort), over a six-week period in the fall term. Having already completed the first-year Language and Literacy course, focused on literacy processes and young children's language and literacy learning and development, teacher candidates in the second-year course were expected to articulate, plan, enact, and critique theoretically-consistent literacy teaching, learning, curriculum and assessment practices. As the Early Years Language and Literacy professor (for both Year 1 and Year 2), I intended to support second-year teacher candidates in this endeavour by creating an innovative teacher education experiment, about which Melissa was writing.  \nOver the two years, I had observed that most teacher candidates had begun to construct personal literacy education theories in our university classes. Their theories were based on professional reading, class demonstrations and conversations, personal and academic writing, and selected  \nclass visits; during which they often heard the voices of teachers engaged in state-of-the-art literacy teaching practices. 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