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Understanding new teachers' professional identities through metaphor
Lynn Thomas,Catherine Beauchamp +1 more
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This paper examined the metaphors new teachers use to describe their professional identities and compared metaphors chosen immediately following graduation with those suggested part way through their first year of teaching, finding that new teachers make a shift from seeing themselves as ready for the challenge, to adopting a survival mode.About:
This article is published in Teaching and Teacher Education.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 364 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Teacher education & Identity (social science).read more
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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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Struggling for a Professional Identity: Two Newly Qualified Language Teachers' Identity Narratives during the First Years at Work.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared two newly qualified teachers' professional identity formation stories and found that the participants' stories display two different experience narratives: a painful and an easy beginning.
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Who and how? Preservice teachers as active agents developing professional identities
TL;DR: In this paper, an ongoing action research project with preservice class teachers in Finland aims to better understand the forms agency takes in teachers' professional identity development through the dialogical analysis of student assignments, highlighting the way in which identity-agency is contextualized, potentially nourished by the relationships between self and other.
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Student teachers’ and mentor teachers’ perceptions and expectations of a mentoring relationship: do they match or clash?
TL;DR: In this article, similarities and differences between mentor teachers and student teachers' perceptions of the components of a positive mentoring relationship and its impact on the identity formation of student teachers were examined.
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an introduction to the process of conducting research, including the steps in the procedure of identifying a research problem, defining a purpose and research questions or hypotheses, and analyzing and interpreting quantitative data.
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Metaphors We Live by
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials
TL;DR: In this article, Denzin and Denzin discuss the discipline and practice of qualitative research in the field of history, and present a set of guidelines for interpreting, evaluating, and evaluating qualitative evidence.
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Preparing teachers for a changing world : what teachers should learn and be able to do
TL;DR: The conceptos centrales and pedagogias centrales deberian estar en el corazon de cualquier programa de formación docente as discussed by the authors, a partir de los resultados de una comision patrocinada por la Academia Nacional de Educacion, recomienda la creacion de un plan de estudios de formacion docente informado con los elementos comunes que representan los estandares mas avanzados for la profesion.
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