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23108] The days I39。s true though because there were a couple of things that happened yesterday ... I was looking for you this morning, 39。 Sjoberg, 1991) of the emotional experience of a group of beginning teachers. Role of the Researcher My role as the researcher is to be an instrument of data collection that gathers data, analyzes data inductively, and interprets the meanings conveyed by participants (Patton, 1990). However, this objective role is filled with subjective tendencies in my research study that must be kept at the forefront of my thinking throughout the stages of data collection and analysis. 4 In recent years, I have been involved on a mittee that explored the possible implementation of a teacher induction program within the Southwestern Ontario school district where the site of this study is located. Also, at the invitation of a principal and viceprincipal, I participated in the beginning stages of two small sitebased initiatives prior to this study. One initiative was with six beginning teachers in a local elementary school. The other initiative involved approximately ten secondary teachers from the research site of this study. What I bring to this study is influenced by my own teacher experiences and from my understanding of teacher induction research. I believe that teacher induction is an essential ponent to effectively bringing new teachers into the profession. Clearly, I believe that the emotional dimension of new teachers39。 emotional work is the natural setting for this thesis. Case study is the research methodology (Merriam, 1988) utilized in this thesis. Case study has a tradition of broad interdisciplinary evolution as it explores a bounded system (Smith, 1978) through indepth data collection of multiple data sources (Creswell, 1998). Multiple forms of data collection, such as interviews, observations, debriefing interviews, field notes, and documents provide an indepth view of the case. By design, case studies bring out details of participant viewpoints by using multiple data sources. Thus this holistic approach to case study research enables an examination of the plexity of all of the working parts in an integrated system (Stake, 1995, p. 2). The context of case study research involves situating the case within its natural setting, thus aligning with the naturalistic approach of qualitative research. The primary design of this thesis will be a collective case study (Stake, 1995) involving six beginning teachers as separate case studies examined through crosscase analysis. The intent of m