Mo(ve)ments in professional identification: achieving professional identity and becoming a teacher in Danish and Kenyan teacher education

TY - JOUR

T1 - Mo(ve)ments in professional identification

T2 - achieving professional identity and becoming a teacher in Danish and Kenyan teacher education

AU - Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume

PY - 2020/1/2

Y1 - 2020/1/2

N2 - This article explores and compares the way in which Danish and Kenyan student-teachers achieve a professional identity while training to be teachers, drawing on conceptually-related theoretical approaches of critical psychology, social theory of learning, professional literature and literature about narratives and life history. Findings from contextual comparisons of the students’ life stories suggest that the process of professional becoming may be viewed as a highly personal meaning-making and storied process following individual trajectories through teacher training; yet moments in which students change professional identification are often ingrained in social relations with tutors and other students, or take place during periods of teaching practice. Student-teachers come to acknowledge teacher training as a resource and part of a personal life project, and some students change their professional identification profoundly during teacher training.

AB - This article explores and compares the way in which Danish and Kenyan student-teachers achieve a professional identity while training to be teachers, drawing on conceptually-related theoretical approaches of critical psychology, social theory of learning, professional literature and literature about narratives and life history. Findings from contextual comparisons of the students’ life stories suggest that the process of professional becoming may be viewed as a highly personal meaning-making and storied process following individual trajectories through teacher training; yet moments in which students change professional identification are often ingrained in social relations with tutors and other students, or take place during periods of teaching practice. Student-teachers come to acknowledge teacher training as a resource and part of a personal life project, and some students change their professional identification profoundly during teacher training.

KW - Professional identity

KW - professionalisme

KW - Teachers

KW - teacher education

KW - life stories

KW - professional identity

KW - professional development

KW - social theory of learning

KW - Lærerprofession

KW - Læreruddannelse

KW - Læring

KW - Videregående uddannelse

KW - Læreruddannelse

KW - Lærerprofession

U2 - 10.1080/03057925.2018.1508333

DO - 10.1080/03057925.2018.1508333

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0305-7925

VL - 50

SP - 123

EP - 140

JO - Compare: a journal of comparative and international education

JF - Compare: a journal of comparative and international education

IS - 1

ER -