This paper draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to understand the resistance of teacher education graduates to their University learning and the alignment with the field of education. This is a perplexing and perennial problem in teacher education. Bourdieu’s theory offers concepts that allow this situation to be theorized through notions of identity and the wider social, cultural arena within ...

This paper explores the complex processes involved in the self-construction of academic identity in a UK School of Education. Drawing on the research of four academics, it begins by discussing teacher educators’ varying perceptions of the need to re-configure their identity to meet the expectations of a twenty first century Higher Education workforce. It proposes the formation of this identity ...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore the teacher identity formation dynamics of student nurse-educators about the subject matter, pedagogy and didactics. DESIGN A case study using descriptive quantitative design was employed. METHODS Using a cross-sectional approach, data were collected in 2014 using a self-administered questionnaire. Participants were asked to self-evaluate their teach...

In the light of international interest in teachers’ literate identities and practices, this paper addresses the under-researched area of teachers’ writing identities. It examines the multimodal interactive discursive practices at play in the writing classroom of a teacher in the UK who, in order to support the pupils, consciously positions herself as a writer in this context; seeking to model e...

This investigation postulatesVygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (ZPD) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as Norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.Thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an Iranian EFL writing...

Abstract This article reports on original research investigating teacher wellbeing while teaching mathematics in relation to identity. Using survey data from teachers ( N = 402) participating a of support initiative, was operationally defined as the experience whilst teaching, allowing an applied understanding activity teaching. Teacher identity construed prior by authors (Willis et al., in: Ma...