Teacher identity construction: narrative research on a foreign language teacher with no formal pedagogical background
Teacher identity construction deals with the way teachers make sense of theirwork experience and acquire relevant knowledge about their job. Becoming a teacher means building up a certain kind of identity which aims at finding an individual sense of coherence, one which society demands. This study f...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Spanish |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
2015-04-01
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Series: | Educación |
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Online Access: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/educacion/article/view/12246 |
Summary: | Teacher identity construction deals with the way teachers make sense of theirwork experience and acquire relevant knowledge about their job. Becoming a teacher means building up a certain kind of identity which aims at finding an individual sense of coherence, one which society demands. This study focuses on the narrative identity construction of a foreign language teacher without formal pedagogical background.Resources, practices and tensions involved in identity work deriving from non-institutionalizaed labor trajectories are analyzed. The study pigeonholes the kinds of discursive resources, ten positioning practices and three sources of tension underpinning one foreign language teacher identity construction. |
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ISSN: | 1019-9403 2304-4322 |