ERIC Number: EJ1120183
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Dec
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1598-1037
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Understanding What Is Possible across a Career: Professional Identity Development beyond Transition to Teaching
Mahmoudi-Gahrouei, Vahid; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Hamman, Doug
Asia Pacific Education Review, v17 n4 p581-597 Dec 2016
Professional identity surfaces repeatedly as an important underlying factor in teacher development. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used to investigate identity development in terms of teachers' expected and feared possible selves. Teachers (n = 120) representing three career groups (prospect, new, and experienced) participated. The findings reveal differences in possible selves which are detectable based on career group. New teachers exhibited a greater focus on task self-concepts; prospective teachers expressed both task and quality possible selves; and experienced teachers expressed identities more concerned about the quality-focused ones. Our findings also reveal a potential transition path in professional identity development.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Career Development, Faculty Development, Mixed Methods Research, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Cohort Analysis, Self Concept
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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