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The development of student teachers’ professional identity
Carl Lamote,Nadine Engels +1 more
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In this paper, the authors focus on student teachers' perceptions of their professional identity and find that students with work placement experience developed a more realistic view of learning and teaching compared to students without this experience.Abstract:
This study focuses on student teachers’ perceptions of their professional identity. The respondents are students enrolled in a three‐year course in secondary education teaching at bachelor level. Questionnaires were filled out by first‐year, second‐year and third‐year students from two colleges. The questionnaire included four scales: commitment to teaching, professional orientation, task orientation and self‐efficacy. In the first five months of the first‐year course, a shift in students’ task orientation was observed: students developed a more pupil‐centred view on teaching. Practical experience with classroom teaching again caused a shift: students focused less on the subject matter, on maintaining order in the classroom, on the long‐term educational qualification targets and self‐efficacy decreased. Students with work placement experience developed a more ‘realistic’ view of learning and teaching compared to students without this experience. A final important difference in professional identity is bas...read more
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A review of research on student teachers' professional identity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of 29 empirical studies to identify the main foci of research on student teachers' identity, the methodologies used and their major findings.
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Tensions in beginning teachers’ professional identity development, accompanying feelings and coping strategies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the professional identity tensions experienced by 182 beginning teachers during their professional identity development, the feelings that accompanied these tensions and the ways they tried to cope with these.
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Becoming a teacher: student teachers’ experiences and perceptions about teaching practice
TL;DR: In an attempt to build a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of the complexity, dynamics and idiosyncrasies involved in becoming a teacher, this paper focused on the experiences of 295 student teachers.
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Professional identity tensions of beginning teachers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on interviews with 24 beginning teachers about tensions they experienced regarding their professional identity regarding the change in role from student to teacher, conflicts between desired and actual support given to students, and conflicting conceptions of learning to teach.
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Teacher identity development in the first year of teacher education: A developmental and social psychological perspective
Myron D. Friesen,Susan C. Besley +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the development of teacher identity in a cohort of first year student teachers from a developmental and social psychological perspective, relying on Erikson's (1964) theory of identity development and Turner, Oakes, Haslam, and McGarty's (1994) self-categorization theory.
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