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Beginning to teach after teacher education is commonly depicted as an emotionally challenging period.
Beginning teachers deploy strategies to cope with the emotionally challenging transition from teacher education and starting a position as a teacher.
One way of coping is trying change the origin of the challenges.
The aim of the study was to investigate how teachers in their last year as student teachers and their first year as teachers make meaning of a change advocacy strategy to cope with challenging situations as teachers.
A qualitative interview study was performed.
Twenty-five participants were interviewed while studying in their last year of teacher education, and 20 were interviewed again after having worked as a teacher for a year.
In between, 68 self-reports were collected.
The material was analysed using constructivist grounded theory tools.
The findings show that as student teachers the participants identified two prerequisites to be able to use the change advocacy strategy as beginning teachers:
(1) establishing teacher ambiguity and
(2) challenging the perceived negative mindset.
When utilising a change advocacy strategy as beginning teachers, the participants tried to reform teaching practices and attain a position of competence.
Published: 2021
Updated: Mar. 29, 2022
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In the context of the student-teaching practicum, interactions with cooperating teachers and pupils are believed to comprise the press for professional identity development, though theory-based explanations are often neglected in the literature, and findings are not always consistent. To address this issue, the authors used grounded theory to articulate a model explaining the relations among three constructs important to the process of identity development of student teachers. The findings are organized around a model that highlights the phenomenon of “negotiating who I am as a teacher”.
Published: 2015
Updated: Aug. 16, 2015
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Drawn from a larger study, the authors examine how one preservice teacher negotiated positions of power with students in ways that enabled and prohibited him from enacting his preferred teacher identities. Specifically, this study illustrates how video analysis opened opportunities for this preservice teacher to reflect on the relationship between positions of power and identity enactment during moment-to-moment classroom interactions. The analysis challenged the preservice teacher to study how he positioned himself as a teacher, how students positioned him, and how he positioned students during classroom interactions.
Published: 2013
Updated: Sep. 03, 2014
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The authors report on a grounded theory analysis of prospective teachers’ online reflections in an ePortfolio system. Results indicate that prospective teachers tend to showcase or “sunshine” their teaching and learning experiences rather than reflect on them analytically and critically.
Published: 2012
Updated: Jun. 25, 2013
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This study explored the role of teacher education programs on the career paths of 38 Noyce scholarship recipients by using grounded theory. The 38 Noyce scholars completed teacher education programs across the United States. The study resulted in a model of the pathway to retention in high-need settings based on the scholars’ perceptions as reported in the interviews. The use of an inductive grounded theory approach indicated that teacher education played a role on the scholars’ career paths.
Published: 2011
Updated: Mar. 19, 2013
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This study explores what is advocated and disseminated as reflection about teaching to teachers in professional development journals. The authors conducted a discourse analysis of 122 articles that dealt with teacher reflection. These texts were published in two popular educational journals in Spain: Notes on Pedagogy and Educational Innovation Journal. The authors found four biases in what is conveyed to teachers about reflection.
Published: 2011
Updated: Oct. 31, 2012
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The purpose of this study is to investigate ethical dilemmas in critical incidents and the emerged responses that these incidents elicit. The critical incidents revealed a multifaceted model of ethical dilemmas, among them clashing with rules, standards, or norms in school. Furthermore, the findings also revealed a multitude of derived responses.
Published: 2011
Updated: Dec. 29, 2011
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This article uses an examination of marketization in Philadelphia over a six-year period to explore the ability of individuals and groups to work with and influence the school district and hold officials accountable. The authors find that the marketization of education in Philadelphia had a major impact on the district’s institutional structure and practices for interacting with local stakeholders.
Published: 2011
Updated: Oct. 27, 2011
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This study draws on social learning and activity theories to examine the specific factors that support equity-minded teachers to navigate accountability-driven language arts reforms. Furthermore, the study examines the specific barriers that might hinder teachers from serving marginalized students—particularly English Learners—in an era of accountability, and how particular contextual factors mediate teachers’ responses to accountability pressures. Findings underscore the importance of balanced leadership in an era of high- stakes accountability, particularly as it relates to teacher professionalism, learning, and agency.
Published: 2011
Updated: Oct. 10, 2011
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This paper describes aspects of research relating to the influences of mentoring on the teaching and learning of academic literacy. This multiple case study, based on the principles of grounded theory, describes five cases. Analysis of each case study separately revealed six facets of academic literacy mentoring at the college.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 05, 2011