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Teachers’ Identity Tensions and Related Coping Strategies : Interaction With the Career Stages and Socio-Political Context
2022
When external requirements conflict with teachers’ personal beliefs and values, the resulting internal struggles can lead to identity tensions. Contributing to discussion on teachers’ identity development in a challenging context, this study investigated teacher identity tensions and related coping strategies in Hong Kong. We conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with qualified teachers and then performed a deductive thematic analysis of the data. We categorised the identity tensions as positioned on the micro or macro level, and distinguished the coping strategies as emotion-focused or problem-focused behaviours. The identity tensions and related coping strategies seemed to be associated…
Preservice teachers’ training through microteaching experience
2020
The efficient teaching and the reflexive one were long recognized as desirable purposes of teachers’ training programs. Several studies demonstrated that simulated experiences inside university paths are suitable means to achieve that aim to have prepared teachers to become efficient and reflexive teachers. One of the methods more common to provide experience for teachers in training is microteaching. The video-registration and the methodologies that use of it are increasingly used in the professional training of future teachers. The teacher's professionalism requests, in addition to theoretical or disciplinary knowledge, the ability to mobilize knowledge to organize effective responses to …
Mācīšana komandā skolotāja profesionālās attīstības veicināšanai
2019
Ar skolotāja profesionālo pilnveidi bieži saprot tālākizglītības kursu un semināru apmeklēšanu, taču viena no 21. gadsimta izglītības sistēmas inovācijām ir mācīšanās mijiedarbībā un sadarbībā, ko sauc par “mācīšanu komandā”. Skolotāja maģistra pieredzes darbā ir pētīts mācīšanas komandā potenciāls veicināt skolotāja profesionālo pilnveidi. Tā kā mācīšana komandā ir saistīta ar vismaz diviem cilvēkiem un to vislabāk var saprast no personīgās pieredzes perspektīvas, maģistra darba autores ir divas angļu valodas kā svešvalodas skolotājas, kas ir veikušas sešu ciklu darbības pētījumu, kas kā datu vākšanas metodes ietver grupas diskusiju, skolotāju dienasgrāmatas, anketu skolēniem un refleksija…
Mācīšana komandā skolotāja profesionālās attīstības veicināšanai
2019
Ar skolotāja profesionālo pilnveidi bieži saprot tālākizglītības kursu un semināru apmeklēšanu, taču viena no 21. gadsimta izglītības sistēmas inovācijām ir mācīšanās mijiedarbībā un sadarbībā, ko sauc par “mācīšanu komandā”. Skolotāja maģistra pieredzes darbā ir pētīts mācīšanas komandā potenciāls veicināt skolotāja profesionālo pilnveidi. Tā kā mācīšana komandā ir saistīta ar vismaz diviem cilvēkiem un to vislabāk var saprast no personīgās pieredzes perspektīvas, maģistra darba autores ir divas angļu valodas kā svešvalodas skolotājas, kas ir veikušas sešu ciklu darbības pētījumu, kas kā datu vākšanas metodes ietver grupas diskusiju, skolotāju dienasgrāmatas, anketu skolēniem un refleksija…
Professional identity in relation to vocational teachers’ work : an identity-centred approach to professional development
2018
This paper reports a study on teachers’ professional identity and work in vocational education. The findings showed that vocational teachers’ work included vocational teaching within the school, developmental work, technology-enhanced work, professional duties outside the school, and educational duties within the school. Furthermore, the study revealed the harmonious and tensioned relationships between these elements of the work and teachers’ identities. Recognition of the nuanced nature of these relationships provides a perspective for promoting teachers’ professional development. From a practical perspective, there is a need to support vocational teachers’ identity work and the adoption o…
Stories of professional development in physiotherapy education
2022
This study examines graduating physiotherapy students’ narratives related to their professional development. The data comprised interviews with 33 graduating physiotherapy students. The data were analyzed using the narrative analysis approach. As a result, five different story models were identified. The descriptive story models were named: 1) “Study path dominated by life changes”; 2) “Realizing the connection between physiotherapy theory and practice”; 3) “Self-regulated and practical-oriented learning path”; 4) “Becoming a critical developer”; and 5) “Multiprofessional working towards expertise”. In students’ stories, there appeared different turning points that illustrated especially me…
Changing landscape in professional development : narrative research from the physiotherapy students' perspective
2018
Physiotherapy students construct their professional development gradually in a socio-cultural process between school and working life in the health care sector. The Health Care Professionals Act 559/1994 and National Qualification Framework (NQF) define the legislative basis and education for physiotherapists in Finland. The European Qualification Framework (EQF) defines the learning outcomes in education and they focus on what knowledge, skills and competences the learner has acquired by the end of the learning process, but it does not identify how outcomes are achieved. The aim of this study is to investigate and understand physiotherapy students’ stories about their professional developm…
Project-Based Education Research Course Supports Exchange-students’ Research Minded Teacher Identity
2022
Project-based education (PBE) gives possibilities for students to work together and feeling of belonging in a community even during distance learning. At the Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä (JYU), a group of exchange students participated in a PBE chemistry teacher education research course online. The goal of the course was to enforce the connection between research on science teaching and acting sustainable in society. This study is based on semi-structured online group interview of the students after this PBE course. The main focus of this investigation was how positive feelings and attitude affect learning. peerReviewed