Teacher identity discourses : negotiating personal and professional spaces
"In this book Janet Alsup reports and theorizes a multi-layered study of teacher identity development. The study, which followed six preservice 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
Print Book, English, ©2006
L. Erlbaum Associates ; National Council of Teachers of English, Mahwah, N.J., Urbana, Ill., ©2006
Inscriptions
xvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780805856323, 9780805858532, 0805856323, 0805858539
60348809
A teaching life: how and why this project came to be
What does it mean to be a secondary school teacher?
The struggle of subjectivities: narratives of tension
Memories and enactments: experiential narratives of teaching and learning
Denying the mind/body split: narratives about the embodiment of teacher identity
The influence of others: narratives about family and friends
Using discourse to create a teacher identity: borderland narratives
Teaching is ... an analysis of the metaphor
What do I believe? statements of philosophy
To know thyself: final thoughts about teacher identity