Teacher professional identity, or what it means to be a teacher, informs the types of schools teachers seek for work. With marketization in US and abroad, teachers’ identities are changing. However, we know little about how negotiate—and renegotiate—their during job search contexts with school choice, such as charter schools. This study uses qualitative interview data from 46 San Antonio, Texas...

Middle Eastern countries are suddenly confronted with the problem of a severe loss of architectural heritage, which is the material manifestation of their own cultural inheritance and thus that of their identity, particularly under conditions of a sudden, rapid, radical and haphazard way of transformation as imposed over a society and its cultural geography by global impacts. This paper aims to...

Abstract How did work shape people's identity before industrial capitalism? It is a question that early modernists have never really got to grips with. Thanks decades of research by social and cultural historians, we now much better understanding how people in the past saw themselves labelled those around them. But until recently scholars modern England had surprisingly little say about person'...

This special issue of The Journal Architecture has its beginnings in a symposium that was organised jointly by Drawing Matter and the Edinburgh School Landscape Architecture,...