Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces

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Routledge, 15 août 2006 - 250 pages
In this book, Janet Alsup reports and theorizes a multi-layered study of teacher identity development. The study, which followed six pre-service English education students, was designed to investigate her hypothesis that forming (or failing to form) a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. This work addresses the intersection of various types of discourse within the process of professional identity development, emphasizes that the intersection of the personal and professional in teacher identity formation is more complex than is acknowledged in typical methods classes, and accents the need for teacher educators to take steps to facilitate such integration. Specific suggestions for methods courses are presented that teacher educators can use as is or adapt to their own contexts. Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces speaks eloquently to faculty, researchers, and graduate students across the field of teacher education.

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How and Why This Project Came to Be
1
Chapter 2 What Does It Mean to Be a Secondary School Teacher?
20
Narratives of Tension
51
Experiential Narratives of Teaching and Learning
77
Narratives About the Embodiment of Teacher Identity
88
Narratives About Family and Friends
106
Borderland Narratives
125
Chapter 8 Teaching Is an Analysis of the Metaphor
147
Chapter 9 What Do I Believe? Statements of Philosophy
166
Final Thoughts About Teacher Identity
181
Sample Assignments
197
Glossary
205
References
207
Author Index
217
Subject Index
221
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