Reflections on Identity : Narratives from Educators

• Autore: Hopkins Neil
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 pages)
• Altri autori: ThompsonCarol
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Editors´ Introduction -- Starting the Conversation -- References -- Reflecting on the Identity of the Teaching Profession: Time for Some Higher Status? -- Background -- Key Questions -- Introduction: Was I a Great Teacher? -- Teaching as a Modest Profession, Why Is That a Problem? -- Teaching as a Novice Profession? -- The Road Not Taken -- Who Am I? Teacher? Academic? Researcher? -- What´s in a Name? Expert or Highly Accomplished? -- The Advanced Skills Teacher and Teacher Identity -- The Significance of the AST Role -- The Chartered College of Teaching (CCT) and the Future of the Profession -- Not a Conclusion -- References -- The Researcher as Inter-disciplinarian: A Reflection on Professional Identity in a Specialised World -- Background -- Key Questions -- Research in Education: A Practice? A Discipline? Neither? -- The Challenges for Interdisciplinary Work -- The Relationship Between Research and Teaching -- Communities of Practice for the Interdisciplinary Researcher -- My Own Practice as an Interdisciplinary Researcher -- Conclusion -- References -- Identity and Leadership in Education -- Background -- Key Questions -- Leadership Identity in Tension -- Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Leadership Incongruities Exposed -- Why Badiou? -- Alain Badiou in Brief -- Hope for the Future -- References -- ``Making More of a Difference´´: The Creation of Teachers´ Identities as Professionals Who Deal with Disadvantage -- Background -- Key Questions -- Introduction -- Making a Difference, Having a Choice -- Some Views of Teacher Identity -- Project Context and Methods -- Positionality -- Disadvantage and the Wider World -- Disadvantage and Teaching and Learning -- Disadvantage, Culture and Economics -- Discussions: Personal, Professional and Theoretical Reflections. ; Teachers Tackling Disadvantage as Moral and Authentic Leadership: The Researcher as Teacher and the Teacher as Leader -- Code, Classification and Compensation: Teachers Tackling Disadvantage Through a Sociological Lens -- Conclusion -- References -- Managing and Implementing Educational-Technological Change: A Case for Co-development -- Background -- Key Questions -- HEIs and Drivers for Change -- Technology, Change and Innovation -- Agile or Waterfall? -- Kotter´s Eight Step Model -- Creating a Sense of Urgency: The Impact of Covid -- Creating a Guiding Coalition -- Developing a Clear Vision -- Communicating the Vision -- Empowering People to Act on the Vision -- Create Short Term Wins -- Consolidate and Build on Gains -- Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture -- References -- A Democratic View of Professional Development in HE -- Background -- Key Questions -- The Purpose of Professional Development -- Who Am I, What Have I Been and What Do I Believe? -- From Staff Development to Professional Development -- Tensions in Professional Development Design and Facilitation -- Institutional Tensions -- Facilitator-Participant Tensions -- Educational Professional´s Agency -- Professional Development in Practice -- Case Study 1: Developing Evaluation Skills -- Case Study 2: Moving Widening Participation Outreach Online -- Case Study 3: Not Just Changing VLEs but Changing Pedagogies -- The Ghosts in the Machine: A Barrier of Mindset? -- The Limitation of Professional Development´s Ability to Shape Professional Identity -- Conclusion -- References -- When to Show the Way, When to Lead the Way and When to Step Away - Exploring the Roles and Identities of Teacher Educators in ... -- Background -- Key Questions -- Introduction -- Change - Learning How to Be -- Overcoming Hurdles - Learning How to Act. ; What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher? Learning How to Understand -- What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher Educator? -- How to Be, How to Act, How to Understand -- Conclusion -- References -- The Invisible Educators -- Background -- Key Questions -- Introduction -- Being an Area Adult Education Officer -- `Arriving by Accident´: Developing My Professional Identity -- The Professional Identity of TEds What Professional Identity? -- `The Underminers´: Ofsted Pressure, Changing Policy and Further Education Inferiority Syndrome -- Connecting Professionals -- Getting Connected as Connecting Professionals -- The `Sharing Innovations in Teacher Education´ (SITE) Project -- Teacher Educators in Lifelong Learning (TELL) -- `Invisibility or Visibility´: Further Thoughts on the Professional Identity of TEds -- Conclusion: Moving Out of Invisibility and the Scholarly Silence? -- References -- Some Thoughts and Reflections on Identity, Teaching, and Writing, and How They Might Affect One Another -- Background -- Key Questions -- The Sorts of Things That Make You (Want to) Write -- Some Theories of Identity. Or: Why We Still Need to Read Donna Haraway -- The Autobiographical Bit I´d Hoped to Avoid -- Conclusion? -- References -- Reinterpreting the `Professional´-isation of Outdoor Education in the Context of Higher Education -- Background -- Key Questions -- Introduction -- What Do I Do? -- Ronald W. Hepburn and Aesthetics of Nature -- How the Environment Invites Responses -- Place -- Community -- Expression -- Conversations Rather Than Conclusions -- References -- Beyond ``Paraprofessional´´: Empowering and Equipping Teaching Assistants to Develop a Sense of Identity -- Background -- Key Questions -- School Workforce Remodelling -- The Deployment of Teaching Assistants -- In-class Support -- Delivering Interventions -- Higher Level Teaching Assistants. ; Support Staff Deployment Challenges -- The Paraprofessional in the Workplace -- Developing Identity and Agency as a TA -- The Professional Development of TAs -- Conclusion -- References -- Identity in the `Impossible Professions´ -- Background -- Key Questions -- Introduction -- Putting the Eye into Identity -- The Simple Question (Is Never Simple) -- A Fork Called Discourse -- Workplace Identity, 1: The Liar -- Workplace Identity, 2: The Co-design Team -- Adrift in the Countertransference -- Identity During Workplace Change -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- References -- Final Thoughts -- How Is Identity Defined? -- Is Context Important? -- Can Tensions Between Individuals and Organisations Be Resolved?.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reflections on Identity
• ISBN: 3-031-46794-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799234603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II