Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation

This article describes the design of a study that involved junior high-school teachers in Spain. The study investigated the professional identity crisis the teachers faced as a result of an education reform, which affected their work environment. The identity biographical narrative approach was adop...

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Main Authors: Antonio Bolívar, Manuel Fernández Cruz, Enriqueta Molina Ruiz
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Language:deu
Published: FQS 2005-01-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/516
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spelling doaj-af7a3f2c2c274a56979f9d02b0e9b74b2020-11-24T22:12:49ZdeuFQS Forum: Qualitative Social Research1438-56272005-01-0161504Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential TriangulationAntonio Bolívar0Manuel Fernández Cruz1Enriqueta Molina Ruiz2Universidad de GranadaUniversidad de GranadaUniversidad de GranadaThis article describes the design of a study that involved junior high-school teachers in Spain. The study investigated the professional identity crisis the teachers faced as a result of an education reform, which affected their work environment. The identity biographical narrative approach was adopted as the theoretical framework (re)presented in the life stories told by the individuals. Ten biographical interviews were conducted and each interview was analyzed separately (using vertical or diachronic analysis) and, through content analysis, in a transversal perspective (horizontal or synchronic) with the categories which were determined as identity components. As a result of the transversal analysis a protocol guide was created, which was used as the basis for the discussion groups. By means of a sequential triangulation (MORSE, 1991), the ideographic and personal dimensions of the interview enabled us to have a detailed report which was later enhanced by the group perspective. According to the classification by STAKE, this research can be considered a collective case study by means of eight focus groups. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0501125http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/516teachers' professional identitysequential triangulationbiographical-narrative research
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Manuel Fernández Cruz
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Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
teachers' professional identity
sequential triangulation
biographical-narrative research
author_facet Antonio Bolívar
Manuel Fernández Cruz
Enriqueta Molina Ruiz
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title Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation
title_short Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation
title_full Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation
title_fullStr Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation
title_full_unstemmed Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation
title_sort researching teachers' professional identity: a sequential triangulation
publisher FQS
series Forum: Qualitative Social Research
issn 1438-5627
publishDate 2005-01-01
description This article describes the design of a study that involved junior high-school teachers in Spain. The study investigated the professional identity crisis the teachers faced as a result of an education reform, which affected their work environment. The identity biographical narrative approach was adopted as the theoretical framework (re)presented in the life stories told by the individuals. Ten biographical interviews were conducted and each interview was analyzed separately (using vertical or diachronic analysis) and, through content analysis, in a transversal perspective (horizontal or synchronic) with the categories which were determined as identity components. As a result of the transversal analysis a protocol guide was created, which was used as the basis for the discussion groups. By means of a sequential triangulation (MORSE, 1991), the ideographic and personal dimensions of the interview enabled us to have a detailed report which was later enhanced by the group perspective. According to the classification by STAKE, this research can be considered a collective case study by means of eight focus groups. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0501125
topic teachers' professional identity
sequential triangulation
biographical-narrative research
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