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Exploring Transitions in Notions of Identity as Perceived by Beginning Post-Compulsory Teachers
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Wright, Victoria; Loughlin, Theresa; Hall, Val – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
This paper reports on Phase Two of a small-scale qualitative research project. Phase One (2015-2016) focused on pre-service student teachers' perceptions of observation and feedback in relation to their developing identity as teachers. In Phase Two, two previous participants reflected on the research findings as qualified and beginning teachers.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Qualitative Research, Professional Identity, Communities of Practice
Pre-Professional Ideologies and Career Trajectories of the Allied Professional Undergraduate Student
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Hosein, Anesa; Rao, Namrata – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
Undergraduate students sometimes pursue degrees that are aimed at allied jobs. This research examines how students in one allied professional degree, education studies, conceptualise their pre-professional ideology and how these ideologies relate to their intended career trajectory. The research draws upon a year-long qualitative survey of over 70…
Descriptors: Career Development, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Professional Education
"I Always Wanted to Do Second Chance Learning": Identities and Experiences of Tutors on Access to Higher Education Courses
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Busher, Hugh; James, Nalita; Piela, Anna – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
There is a dearth of literature on Access to Higher Education (AHE) tutors, which this paper addresses. Tutors play an important part in constructing emotional and academic support for students. Understanding their constructions of professional identity and their views of the students they teach helps to explain the learning environments they…
Descriptors: Tutors, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education
An Alternative Proposition to Lewis' Views on the "Constructions of Professional Identity in a Dynamic Higher Education Sector"
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Feather, Denis – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
This paper offers an alternative proposition to that of Lewis on identity and professional identity in higher education (HE). The proposition is provided from the narratives of 26 individual interviewees who deliver HE in college-based higher education, a viewpoint not considered by Lewis, who tends to adopt a more generalist view. Where Lewis…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Higher Education, Interviews, College Faculty
Professionalism: Doing a Good Job!
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Feather, Denis – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This paper considers the concept of professionalism via perceptions (real or imagined) of lecturers delivering higher education business programmes (HEBPs) in further education colleges in England. The study comprised 26 in-depth interviews conducted in the Yorkshire and Humber region in the UK. The study builds on Perkin's views of a professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Negotiating Professional Identities in Higher Education in Kenya: Dilemmas and Priorities of Faculty
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Arasa, Josephine Nyaboke; Calvert, Mike – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
This research builds on work carried out in England looking at how faculty negotiate their personal and professional identities. It focuses on a sample of full-time faculty in a private secular university in Kenya. Weekly time logs with follow-up individual semi-structured interviews were used as a basis for an examination on how faculty spend…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, College Faculty, Higher Education, Foreign Countries