While literature on teaching emphasizes the importance of identity in teacher development,
understanding identity and the issues related to it can be a challenging endeavour. This …

Scholars generally agree that teacher professional conversations can play a critical role in
teacher learning on the job. However, empirical research on the topic is relatively diffuse …

Background Students and teachers in twenty-first century STEM classrooms face significant
challenges in preparing for post-secondary education, career, and citizenship. Educators …

This study examined tensions encountered by 182 beginning teachers during their
professional identity development, the feelings that accompanied these tensions and the …

Over their careers teachers tacitly construct and reconstruct a conceptual sense of who they
are (their self-image) and what they do (their professional role identity). Teacher role identity …

In this article, we investigate first-year student teachers' teacher identities through their
practical theories and ask what these practical theories reveal about their emerging teacher …

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study on teachers' negotiation of professional
identity through talk with colleagues at an urban, public, Midwestern school in the United …

Reflective practice is becoming an important feature of ESL/EFL teacher education
programs worldwide. One way that may promote reflective practice for English as a foreign …

This article presents a systematic review of a substantial body of literature that considers the
ways in which the concept of teacher identity has been used to understand and explore …

Previous work on new teacher professional identity has focused on identity as a process of
negotiation between individual and contextual factors. These negotiations are often filled …