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Pillen, Marieke; Beijaard, Douwe; den Brok, Perry – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study reports on interviews with 24 beginning teachers about tensions they experienced regarding their professional identity. The interviewees reported a total of 59 tensions of tension that fell into three themes: (1) the change in role from student to teacher; (2) conflicts between desired and actual support given to students; and (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Stress Variables, Beginning Teachers
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den Brok, Perry; van Eerde, Dolly; Hajer, Maaike – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Dealing with ethnic and linguistic diversity is one of the major challenges in today's education. Therefore, the formulation of competencies for teachers and teacher training should take into account the specific requirements of teaching in multicultural schools. In 2002, a series of small-scale studies were conducted to identify and formulate…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Measures (Individuals), Interaction, Case Studies
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Wubbels, Theo; den Brok, Perry; Veldman, Ietje; van Tartwijk, Jan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
In the Netherlands, as in many European countries, classrooms display a growing cultural diversity. There are only very limited empirically supported data on the interpersonal competence teachers need in Dutch classrooms and studies from other countries cannot be generalized because of differences in the composition of the student population. This…
Descriptors: Cues, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries