This study uses teacher identity as an analytic lens to explore how pre-service teachers' professional identity developed during teacher education and to examine what aspects of teacher education promote the development of teacher identity. Guided by the teacher's personal interpretative framework and utilizing a narrative inquiry with a…

The paper reports on an in-depth narrative case study of an immigrant background English as a Second Language teacher's emotional experience in a teacher professional community in England. The data are derived from the teacher's "emotion diaries" and six interviews during the three-month period when she taught on a pre-sessional English…