"You've got the color, but you dont't have the shades" : primary education CLIL teachers' identity negotiation within the Finnish context
This dissertation explores how professional identity is experienced by teachers in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) instruction. In particular, it addresses
professional identity in relation to two immediate contexts of teacher activity, i.e. that of
the classroom and that of the collegial community. In addition to exploring how these
two sides of the professional self give rise to a broader understanding of professional
identity, this dissertation also explores aspects of professional agency and the negotiation of emotions in their work. The dissertation is founded on fourteen interviews with
Finnish kindergarten and primary education teachers doing CLIL. The data were thematically analyzed in relation to exercising teacher agency and negotiating teacher identity at work.
The dissertation first suggests that when CLIL teachers feel agentic at work, they
feel they can work in accordance with how they perceive their professional identity and
have strengt
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Primary education CLIL teachers' identity negotiation within the Finnish contextPublisher
University of JyväskyläISBN
978-951-39-7466-4ISSN Search the Publication Forum
0075-4625Keywords
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) professional identity identity negotiation professional agency teachers' emotions Thematic Analysis Finnish primary education subject-centered socio-cultural approach alakoulu luokanopettajat lastentarhanopettajat ammatti-identiteetti toimijuus vieraskielinen opetus tunteet työyhteisöt
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