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The context of this self-study is a professional development project involving primary-grade teachers in one public school and two university teacher educators. The authors are two teacher educators who are both former public school elementary-grade teachers.The aim of this self-study was to illuminate their understanding of their own professional identities as teachers. Analysis of their narratives revealed that fundamental aspects of their teacher identity have remained constant as their careers have evolved. Regardless of the setting, the age of their students, or the expanded expectations of the university to engage in research and professional service, the authors are, first and foremost, teachers.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 08, 2014
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This article describes a school-based professional development project, which established collaboration between two teacher educators and a group of elementary public school teachers. This collaborative project was called “Book in a Bag” (BIB), which was launched this project as a way to promote curriculum integration in classrooms and at the same time to provide a venue for research. The authors used a self-study to collect data. The authors came to understand that the tensions they experienced in the BIB project were evidence of real differences between the discourses of teacher educators and teachers. The authors identified competing discourses of teachers, teacher educators, and partnership, noting paradoxes that focused on discourse-bound knowledge, discourse-driven motivation, and discourse-limited aspirations.
Published: 2011
Updated: Nov. 25, 2013