ERIC Number: EJ1219732
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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'This Is Where My Inner History Teacher Appears': A Methodological Approach to Analysing Student Teachers' Professional Identity in Interaction
Classroom Discourse, v10 n2 p168-187 2019
By testing a model for analysing identity in interaction, the present article explores how a history student teacher produces social identity in relation to his future profession as a teacher, with an important point of departure being the relationship between the academic and professional aspects of teacher education. This is addressed through an empirical analysis of a student teacher's identity production in a specific academic setting: a bachelor thesis course. The main body of data consists of audio recordings and video recordings from a group of three student teachers giving feedback on each other's theses. With respect to methodology, the article employs a model from multimodal (inter)action analysis that focuses on the concept of "vertical identity" -- the notion that identity in interaction is produced in three layers of discourse simultaneously. The results show that the main participant produces the identity of history teacher in an academic setting where such identity production is not encouraged, e.g. by resemiotisising curricula: thus, policy documents can work as a tool when producing teacher identity. This production of identity is done by employing strong agency, which consequently points to the need of a more elaborated discussion on agency in the tested model.
Descriptors: History Instruction, Student Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Interaction, Bachelors Degrees, Theses, Peer Evaluation, Educational Environment, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Discourse Modes, Academic Language, Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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