Beyond 'what works': Understanding teacher identity as a practical and political tool

N Mockler - Teachers and teaching, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on previous research that focused upon the formation and mediation of teacher
professional identity, this paper develops a model for conceptualising teacher professional …

Accountability to whom? For what? Teacher identity and the force field model of teacher development

M Samuel - Perspectives in Education, 2008 - ajol.info
The rise of fundamentalism in the sphere of teacher education points to a swing back
towards teachers as service workers for State agendas. Increasingly, teachers are expected …

Conceptualizing 'teacher identity': A political approach

M Zembylas, S Chubbuck - … on teacher identity: Mapping challenges and …, 2018 - Springer
The aim of this chapter is to provide a conceptualization of teacher identity that
acknowledges the intersection of identity and politics and the consequences of this …

Understanding teacher educators' work and identities

J Murray, A Swennen, L Shagrir - … a teacher educator: Theory and practice …, 2009 - Springer
This chapter gives an overview of the work and identities of teacher educators. We know that
teacher education is a broad, heterogeneous and differentiated field (or area), within which …

'That's not treating you as a professional': teachers constructing complex professional identities through talk

JL Cohen - Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Public debates about the role of teachers and teacher performance place teachers at the
center of a range of national and local discourses. The notion of teacher professional …

Teacher educators' constructions of professionalism: A case study

J Murray - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article addresses an under-researched area of teacher education by analysing teacher
educators' constructions of their professionalism and the constituent professional resources …

Teacher professional identity: Competing discourses, competing outcomes

J Sachs - Journal of education policy, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
This paper focuses on issues of the professional identity of teachers in Australia under
conditions of significant change in government policy and educational restructuring. Two …

Teacher identity and agency in an era of accountability

R Buchanan - Teachers and teaching, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The current zeitgeist in education in the USA emphasizes accountability for schools,
students, and teachers, based on performance that can be easily quantified. Within this …

Narrative construction of teacher identity: Positioning and negotiation

GE S⊘ reide - Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This article shows how five Norwegian female elementary school teachers use narrative
resources to construct and negotiate several possible teacher identities. The aim of the …

Teacher educators: their identities, sub‐identities and implications for professional development

A Swennen, K Jones, M Volman - Professional development in …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
In this article we address the question:'What sub‐identities of teacher educators emerge
from the research literature about teacher educators and what are the implications of the sub …