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Who Am I? Student Teachers and Their Narratives of Identity Perception, Construction and Performance

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Chapter 5 Who Am I? Student Teachers and Their Narratives of Identity Perception, Construction and Performance explores the perception, construction and performance of teacher identity through an analysis of the narrative of three pre-service teachers. This chapter starts off by exploring various definitions of teacher identity as presented in the literature, while moving on to a presentation of the narrative construction of identities in the professional context. The three student teachers’ narratives interlaced with Bordieusian theory are crafted in such a way as to bring out the juxtapositions and tensions inherent between their personal and professional identities, and the various contextual factors that impinge on the perception, construction and performance of such identities as probationers who are as yet on the threshold to the real profession.

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Mifsud, D. (2018). Who Am I? Student Teachers and Their Narratives of Identity Perception, Construction and Performance. In: Professional Identities in Initial Teacher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76174-9_5

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