Teacher identity discourses
Subtitle: negotiating personal and professional spaces
By: Janet Alsup.
Series: NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates; National Council of Teachers of English
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J; Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: High school teachers -- Training of; Teachers -- Professional relationships
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A teaching life: how and why this project came to be; title: What does it mean to be a secondary school teacher?; title: The struggle of subjectivities: narratives of tension; title: Memories and enactments: experiential narratives of teaching and learning; title: Denying the mind/body split: narratives about the embodiment of teacher identity; title: The influence of others: narratives about family and friends; title: Using discourse to create a teacher identity: borderland narratives; title: Teaching is ... an analysis of the metaphor; title: What do I believe? statements of philosophy; title: To know thyself: final thoughts about teacher identity.