Drawing identity: Beginning pre-service teachers’ professional identities
© 2015, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. All rights reserved. Developing a professional teacher identity can be complex as pre-service teachers engage with a process informed by their previous experiences of teachers and teaching, by learning in their pre-service course, by...
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| author | Beltman, Susan Glass, C. Dinham, Judith Chalk, Beryl Nguyen, Bich |
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| description | © 2015, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. All rights reserved. Developing a professional teacher identity can be complex as pre-service teachers engage with a process informed by their previous experiences of teachers and teaching, by learning in their pre-service course, by field placements, and by societal expectations. Using drawing as the method for gathering data, pre-service teachers in an Australian university were asked, prior to their first professional experience, to draw themselves as the teacher they hoped to become. Drawings (N=125) were coded according to the presence or absence of teacher, students and artefacts of teaching. Representations indicated that pre-service teachers identified themselves as teachers who would conduct enjoyable learning experiences, have positive relationships with their students and who were confident in themselves as a teacher. There was little evidence of the potential complexities or challenges of teaching, raising a dilemma for teacher educators in how to prepare pre-service teachers for the reality of the workplace while maintaining their positive approach. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-295712017-01-30T13:13:48Z Drawing identity: Beginning pre-service teachers’ professional identities Beltman, Susan Glass, C. Dinham, Judith Chalk, Beryl Nguyen, Bich © 2015, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. All rights reserved. Developing a professional teacher identity can be complex as pre-service teachers engage with a process informed by their previous experiences of teachers and teaching, by learning in their pre-service course, by field placements, and by societal expectations. Using drawing as the method for gathering data, pre-service teachers in an Australian university were asked, prior to their first professional experience, to draw themselves as the teacher they hoped to become. Drawings (N=125) were coded according to the presence or absence of teacher, students and artefacts of teaching. Representations indicated that pre-service teachers identified themselves as teachers who would conduct enjoyable learning experiences, have positive relationships with their students and who were confident in themselves as a teacher. There was little evidence of the potential complexities or challenges of teaching, raising a dilemma for teacher educators in how to prepare pre-service teachers for the reality of the workplace while maintaining their positive approach. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29571 http://www.iier.org.au/iier25/beltman.pdf Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Beltman, Susan Glass, C. Dinham, Judith Chalk, Beryl Nguyen, Bich Drawing identity: Beginning pre-service teachers’ professional identities |
| title | Drawing identity: Beginning pre-service teachers’ professional identities |
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| url | http://www.iier.org.au/iier25/beltman.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29571 |