Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching

International Narratives of Successful Teachers

A. Cendel Karaman, Silvia Edling, A. Cendel Karaman, Silvia Edling

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367747138
• eBook ISBN: 9781000374216
• Topic: Bildung
• Subtopic: Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft

This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers' professional learning narratives. The book has a specific focus on narratives on professional learning and professional identities emerging from different contexts and gives a deeper understanding of successful teachers' narratives globally.

Diverging from universally standardized constructions of idealized teacher identity and professional learning, the book provides analyses of a diversified set of cases with detailed descriptions of each teacher's idiographic and professional context to gain a deeper understanding of situated professional identities. With contributions from a range of international backgrounds, it shows teachers of various age groups, subject areas and curricula contribute their narratives to help readers reflect on different trajectories toward becoming a teacher. These narratives provide insight into and a deeper understanding of the conditions and complex processes that being a "successful" teacher involves within these case studies, providing a useful contribution to the field of teacher education.

Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching: International Narratives of Successful Teachers will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students of teacher education and international and comparative education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Author biographies
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Remaining a student of teaching forever
• Chapter 2: From success/failure binaries to teaching for justice
• Chapter 3: Teacher narratives as counter-narratives of successful teaching
• Chapter 4: “If I can do it at this school, you can put me anywhere”
• Chapter 5: Professional development of EFL teachers through reflective practice in a supportive community of practice
• Chapter 6: Looking back with pride—looking forward in hope
• Chapter 7: Understanding a teacher’s professional identity through pedagogical rhythm
• Chapter 8: Revisiting selves through a “success” perspective
• Chapter 9: Path toward the construction of a professional identity
• Chapter 10: “Successful teaching”
• Conclusion
• Index