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Understanding Student Teachers' Professional Identity Transformation through Metaphor: An International Perspective
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Zhu, Jinfei; Zhu, Gang – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This paper traces 120 student teachers' professional identity transformation during practicums in China and US. By eliciting the participants' 240 written metaphors at the start and the end of the teaching practicums respectively, this study reveals the change of the embodied metaphors revolving around four arenas: (1) from idealistic expectations…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Practicums, Figurative Language, Mentors