Becoming and 'being' a teacher: understanding teacher professional identity.

Title: Becoming and 'being' a teacher: understanding teacher professional identity.
Creator: Mockler, Nicole
Relation: Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry p. 123-138
Relation: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education 7
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0805-1_9
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: This chapter explores the notion of teacher professional identity, reporting on a three-year study that sought to understand the formation and mediation of professional identity for secondary school teachers. It highlights the domains of personal experience, professional context and external political environment in the ever-emerging construction of teacher professional identity and suggests that ‘identity anchors’ work to fix teachers’ professional identities at particular points in their careers, providing a connection point between the essential identity question of ‘Who am I in this context?’ and broader questions of moral and educational purpose.
Subject: teacher; professional identity; secondary school teachers
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057033
Identifier: uon:16116
Identifier: ISBN:9789400708044
Language: eng

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