We base this work on central tenets of Black feminist thought. The core objectives of Black feminist thought are to clarify Black women's experiences and ideas through self-definition, to refute stereotypical depictions, to validate Black women's situated knowledge, and to resist marginalization that occurs as a result of our intersectional…

The underrepresentation of African-American faculty in the US professoriate has persisted for some time. Relatedly, adjunct faculty remain a fast-growing sector of the professoriate. Adjunct faculty include "experts" and "specialists" who teach postsecondary courses with a narrow focus and with content tailored to their…

Teachers are leaders, so it seems natural to think that the act of teaching is similar to the act of leading. Research regarding leader identity in teachers, however, presents the concept of teacher leadership as opportunities for leadership beyond the classroom. Teachers who aspire to leadership roles within a school or educational organization…

This doctoral dissertation examines the relationship between teacher's professional identity and innovative work behavior in 21st century Private Catholic schools. This mixed-methods study uses a quantitative validation model which includes scale items measured on a 4-point Likert scale as well as open-ended survey questions which serve as…

The concept of professional identity is deeply engrained into the beings of counselors-in-training, regardless of their specified track. Having a solid understanding of the roles, responsibilities, and the duties that bind us to our profession are tantamount to our actual skills practice and case conceptualization. Counselors-in-training learn the…

This study addresses how high school band directors operationalize their values for music education in their band programs. High school band directors described that their values developed from a variety of influences, namely their educator identity, and the experience of their own participation in high school and collegiate music. I employed a…

Educators become content experts and often learn how to teach their content through higher education schooling, hands-on training, and professional development. There is currently a lack of advising professional development and literature-based knowledge that develops pedagogical knowledge and identity-building skills in academic advisors. If…

Critical literacy--which I define briefly here as a lens that assumes no text is neutral and therefore an important goal of reading and writing is to evaluate and critique the power and perspectives that all texts contain--has been continuously well-theorized over the past half-century but is less frequently taught or studied in practice,…

The purpose of this multi-method single-case study was to examine the application of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Journey model as a means of professional identity creation in the life of Walt Disney. Walt Disney was an entrepreneur, cartoonist, filmmaker, inventor, studio head, and family man whose career stretched through the first half of the 20th…

This chapter discusses the distinction and intersections of leader and educator identities, and offers reflective exercises for exploring, developing, and deepening one's professional leadership educator identity.

We explored how a physical education teacher education (PETE) programme at an Australian university influenced physical education pre-service teacher (PEPST) sport teaching identities. Our methodology utilised Elias's [2012a [1970, 1978]. "What is sociology? Collected works" (Vol. 5). University College Dublin Press] "personal…

Given the need to explore the nature of language teacher educator (LTE) identities, this duoethnography centers the identity journeys of three language teacher educators--Lu, Yuseva, and Zhenjie--as they evolved together and in dialogue with their advisor, Francis. To this end, they began with the central identity task, the Language Use…

This study aims to examine the structures that affect the teaching motivation of in-service teachers. In this context, self-efficacy in teaching computational thinking and professional identity have been focused on. To that end, the relational screening model has been used. A demographic information form and three different scales were used to…

The topic of professionalism in school-based agricultural education is widely discussed in California yet exceedingly subjective in nature. Agricultural education adds another layer of complexity when considering professionalism across the tripartite components of classroom, leadership development (FFA), and supervised agricultural experience.…

This paper shares data from a longitudinal study into secondary performing arts teachers' perceptions of their first five years of teaching. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari's concept of rhizomatic becomings and Braidotti's posthuman knowing subject, our research explores the embodied, relational, and fluid identities of early career teachers. This…