Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching

<p>This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers’ professional learning narratives. The book has a specific focus on narratives on professional learning and professional identities emerging from different contexts and gives a deeper understanding of successful teachers’ narratives globally.</p><p>Diverging from universally standardized constructions of idealized teacher identity and professional learning the book provides analyses of a diversified set of cases with detailed descriptions of each teacher’s idiographic and professional context to gain a deeper understanding of situated professional identities. With contributions from a range of international backgrounds it shows teachers of various age groups subject areas and curricula contribute their narratives to help readers reflect on different trajectories toward becoming a teacher. These narratives provide insight into and a deeper understanding of the conditions and complex processes that being a successful teacher involves within these case studies providing a useful contribution to the field of teacher education.</p><p>Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching: International Narratives of Successful Teachers will be of great interest to researchers academics and post-graduate students of teacher education and international and comparative education. </p>