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Negotiating professional identity: Vocational teachers’ personal strategies in a reform context

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Vähäsantanen, K., & Billett, S. (2008). Negotiating professional identity: Vocational teachers’ personal strategies in a reform context. In S. Billett, C. Harteis, & A. Eteläpelto (Eds.), Emerging perspectives of workplace learning (pp. 35-49). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789087906450_004
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Vähäsantanen, Katja |
Billett, Stephen
Editors
Billett, Stephen |
Harteis, Christian |
Eteläpelto, Anneli
Date
2008
Discipline
AikuiskasvatustiedeAdult Education
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© Sense Publishers. This is an author's final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Sense Publishers.

 
Recent studies of learning through work have included how professional identities are formed through participation in work. However, we need a more elaborated understanding of how professional identities are negotiated at times of rapid change in working practices. This chapter examines the personal strategies that vocational teachers adopt, and the professional identity negotiations that occur, in response to requirements to change professional practices. We report on a study in which open-ended narrative interviews were conducted with sixteen Finnish vocational teachers. From the teachers’ accounts, we identified distinct personal strategies that were adopted to engage with change. The strategies were labelled as follows: (i) professional development, (ii) passive accommodation, (iii) active participation, (iv) a balancing act, and (v) withdrawal. The strategies were aligned to the teachers’ individual concerns, and were bound up with the personal resources available in negotiating with the changing character of the work. An account of these strategies offers a new way of understanding how identities are negotiated through an active, personally-shaped process. The study also illuminates how to promote individuals’ management of the self and of learning at work. ...
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Sense Publishers
Parent publication ISBN
978-90-8790-644-3
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Emerging perspectives of workplace learning
Keywords
ammatillinen identiteetti ammatillinen opettaja opetussuunnitelmauudistus vocational teacher agency toimijuus oppiminen ammatti-identiteetti tutkinnonuudistus
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789087906450_004
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201211293134

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https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/18205695

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