Research on language teacher identity and its development has shown that it can be crucial for teacher education to understand how identity development takes place. The few findings to date on language teacher educators and their identities show individual negotiation processes and antinomies, particularly due to transitions from teacher to…

As a language teacher educator (LTE) at a Doctoral Universities - High Research Activity (R2) institution, this invitation to document how the first author (Gloria) has come to (re)construct and (re)negotiate her identity as an LTE is both timely and necessary, as the academic year 2024--2025 marks her 17th year at her institution. In this…

Language teacher educator (LTE) identity development is an emerging field exploring how LTEs learn to teach and negotiate their identities and how their identity construction processes help teacher candidates learn. The complexity of the issue has prompted researchers to explore their professional journeys and experiences in various contexts from…

Many educators living near the United States and Mexico border were transfronterizo students--young people with familial and institutional ties to both countries, who crossed the border each day to attend United States schools. This study is concerned with how these teachers' identities formed within distinct sociocultural contexts like the…

Based on self-reflective narratives, our study focuses on the lived experience of four Greek primary school teachers who are acknowledged for their personal commitment to environmental education. Their experience was narratively explored through recurrent conversations with them to bring out aspects of their identity and practice. The study was…

This study investigates the identities, identity work and emotions of an international accounting teacher working in the UK. An autoethnographic method is adopted to explore the self-reflexive account of the accounting teacher in a UK university during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022. Personal narratives are analysed in combination with…

This essay uses a fictional narrative to explore the phenomenon of Pretendians in the contemporary university. Summer, who is one of the protagonists in the fictional dialogue, self-identifies as Indigenous, and is hired as an academic based on this identity, and according to affirmative action policies. Whilst working as an Indigenous academic…

This collaborative autoethnographic study explores how three female university English teachers in critical friendship navigated professional identity tensions related to the ideological biases of male faculty members implying that women do not belong in academia because of their gender and the responsibilities it entails in an African context. In…

I consider how teachers discursively instantiate their identities through narrative work, which I frame using the metaphor of weaving a tapestry of the self, and drawing together a conceptualisation of technologies of the self with ideas around performativity, agency and psycho-technologies. I have included data from my analysis of sixteen life…

This dissertation conducts a narrative positioning analysis of full-time two-year college literacy teaching (TYLT) faculty in order to investigate how they perform professional identities through storytelling. The author analyzes narratives surrounding three significant facets of professions: professionalization, jurisdiction, and uses of…

Little is known about the way that teachers cope with the formalisation of professional inquiry in New Zealand. Despite its systemic implementation as an accountability-driven initiative to improve the quality of education, there are varied interpretations and enactments of professional inquiry. In this article, we will explore one teacher's…

Language teacher identities and emotions are deeply sociocultural phenomena. Although intersectionality has asserted itself as a powerful framework in other fields, it is just beginning to emerge in language teacher education. This article argues that intersectionality provides a powerful conceptual lens for analyzing the complex and varied…

In spring 2022, we conducted a phenomenological investigation on the lived experiences of 12 U.S. school counselors during the COVID-19 global pandemic, triangulating individual interviews and participant drawings to gain a rich, thick, comprehensive account. We found that school counselors perceived their experiences during the pandemic as…

Clinical practice within teacher residencies offers contextually based experiences that are influential in the development of professional teacher identities. Additionally, the stories told by teacher candidates about these experiences are instrumental to this development as narratives and identity are intertwined (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000).…

This study looks beyond the student teaching experience into the world of six beginning teachers and how their capstone experience impacted their thinking, practice, and professional identity. Three of the teachers participated in a coteaching during student teaching model (CTDST) and the other three participated in a traditional student teaching…