With the increasing employment pressure of college students and the steady promotion of China's rural revitalization strategy, attracting college students to participate in rural revitalization has become an important issue. This study explores the relationship between rural volunteering, role identity, and career expectations of college students'…

While an expanding body of evidence emerged recommending that teachers stay engaged with the professional learning communities (PLCs) to enhance career development, scant attention has been given to exploring the relationship between teacher agency and their professional commitment to PLCs. To bridge this gap, the current study aims to uncover…

This autoethnographic study explores how the subjectively experienced ecological context of a rural Chinese EFL teacher facilitates the evolution of her teacher identity across three distinct phases. The focus is on examining the teacher's transformation from a reality dissident to a realist, and ultimately to a pioneering educator while analyzing…

This article reports on a multiple-case study which aims to investigate how novice university teachers construct professional identities as they process and utilize resources to promote professional development. Data were collected from 35 novice university teachers in China through prolonged individual interviews as a major source of data, with…

Every year, a number of Chinese undergraduates from urban teacher universities are selected as volunteer pre-service teachers to teach in schools located in underdeveloped rural areas. In this qualitative case study, the researchers explore four pre-service teachers' 1-year experience as volunteer educators in rural schools, their communities of…

While there has been a surge of studies on English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' emotions and identities in research engagement, limited attention has been paid to how they integrate teacher and researcher identities and negotiate different emotions in research practice over time. Drawing on data from a variety of sources over a decade,…

Perceiving a calling toward one's career can provide kindergarten teachers sufficient internal motivation to resist massive job burnout and obtain high-level performance and well-being. Given the important role of leadership on followers' career calling, the present study takes the multilevel approach to examine the cross-level impact of…

Identity directly impacts how university students behave and make decisions in entrepreneurial practice. Therefore, it is significant to explore the factors influencing the identity construction of student-entrepreneurs to understand how processes are internalized by students, which may then affect their entrepreneurial identity. This article…

The study investigates the metaphorical images of English teachers formulated by English for Academic Purpose (EAP) teachers and postgraduate students in a Chinese Sci-tech University. Student Participants (n = 171) and teacher participants (n = 51) completed questionnaires including the metaphor-eliciting prompts to express their perceptions of…

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, distance teaching brought on unforeseen challenges around the world, including classroom-based assessment practice. However, little attention has been paid to teachers' assessment practice and their identity as assessor in the new teaching situation. This study examines Chinese K-12 in-service EFL…

This article aims to study the dynamic change of teachers' beliefs among pre-service teachers. A longitudinal design was adopted to investigate English language teaching (ELT) pre-service teachers' belief change after a 3-month teaching practicum by administering pretest and posttest questionnaires, semistructured interviews, and reflective…

Using critical ethnographic narrative as a tool and language socialization as the theoretical stance, the article analyzes excerpts of a language teacher's life experience and presents findings to join the existing literature. The article indicates that: (1) transnational teacher identities develop in a multiple-identity system including…