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Elite professionals opportunistically employ threats to their work identities to author preferred selves. Predicated on understandings that identities are subjectively available to people as in-progress narratives, and that these are often insecure fabrications, we investigate the identity work of members of a UK-based professional Rugby League club. The research contribution we make is to demonstrate that professionals use identity threats as flexible resources for working on favoured identities. We show that rugby players authored identity threats centred on the shortness of their careers, injury and performance, and how these were appropriated (made their own) by men to develop desired occupational and masculine identities. In so doing, we also contribute to debates on how professionals' identity discourse is an expression of agency framed within relations of power.

Using work orientation and organizational membership as critical variables, the author developed a model to explain teacher militancy. It was hypothesized that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) members would be more professionally oriented than the National Education Association (NEA) members; furthermore, that the more professionally oriented teachers would be more alienated, would have more frequent conflict with the administration of the school system, and would be more militant. The findings supported these hypotheses. However, within the work orientation categories there were some unanticipated findings. For AFT members, the "Professionally Oriented" members were the more alienated, had more frequent conflicts with the administration, and were more militant. For NEA members, the "Job Bureaucrats," and not the "Professionally Oriented," were found to be more alienated, to have more frequent conflicts with the administration, and to be more militant. The data suggest that AFT and NEA members hold quite different definitions of professionalism and of the appropriate role of the public school teacher.

This paper points out the first results obtained in the research project 'The construction of the professional identity of primary education degree students' developed in Málaga. It analyses from narrative strategies, how professional identity is shaping to the novice teachers from his years of training and firs contacts of teaching. At the same time it is a way to visualize and interpret how the idea of professional development of this collective is constructed and how systematically is exposed by legislative, social changes. In the end, to understand the construction of teacher identity is a way to think new possibilities of professional development. ; El presente artículo es fruto de los primeros resultados obtenidos en Málaga del proyecto de investigación denominado La construcción de la identidad profesional de los estudiantes del grado de primaria. Se analiza, desde estrategias narrativas, la identidad profesional que va conformando al profesorado novel desde sus años de formación e inicios docentes; al mismo tiempo es una forma de visualizar e interpretar cómo se construye la idea de desarrollo profesional de un colectivo expuesto sistemáticamente a cambios legislativos, sociales… A fin de cuentas comprender la construcción de la identidad docente, es una forma de repensar nuevas vías de desarrollo profesional.

This study explored supports given by in-service teachers to student-teachers for professional identity development in Indonesia. In this qualitative study, sixteen student teachers taking the course of Curriculum Development at an Islamic higher education institution in Aceh were grouped into six and assigned to six schools (primary to senior high) in two districts in Aceh, Indonesia, to communicate with classroom teachers regarding lesson plan and teaching materials. We also expected them to observe classroom practices if possible. In this way, student teachers gain real experiences on how the teachers develop their lesson plans and implement them in actual lessons, as part of their professional identity development. We then interviewed all of them to delve into their experiences and perceptions of lesson preparation and teaching. The results showed that even though most schoolteachers provide spaces for student-teachers to practice designing lesson plans, most in-service teachers did not allow student teachers to observe classroom practices. This leaves a gap in the trajectory of student teacher identity development as there are few opportunities for support from the in-service teachers in this regard. However, some participants admitted that their teacher identity had been shaped by the good images of the school they visited, the courses on pedagogy they learned at university, and the instructional approaches former teachers used at schools. This study is significant because its findings can fill in the gap in the trajectory of teacher identity development by alerting in-service teachers, teacher trainers, and the government about the importance of providing school support to student teachers for developing their identity.

This paper gains a deeper understanding of the professional role identities of vocational teacher educators (VTEs) when compared with mainstream teacher educators (MTEs) in Malta. It is framed using identity theory from the structural symbolic interactionism perspective (Burke and Stets 2009). Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, adopting thematic analysis. Findings show that VTEs and MTEs underpin their teaching differently, influenced by the perceptions they have about their professional role identities. There is no "one size fits all" solution for each country, yet this study contributes to a field with a limited research base and offers new insights to identity theory.

Acknowledgements -- Matters of professional identity and social work / Stephen A. Webb -- Key concepts and perspectives -- Perspectives on professional identity : the changing world of the social worker / Mike Dent -- What is professional identity and how do social workers acquire it? / Fran Wiles -- Materiality, performance and the making of professional identity / Torben Elgaard Jensen -- Constructing the social, constructing social work / Elizabeth Harlow -- Location, context and workplace culture -- Vocation and professional identity : social workers at home and abroad / Mark Erickson and Jem Price -- Risk work in the formation of the "professional" in child protection social work / Emily Keddell and Tony Stanley -- Identity formation, scientific rationality and embodied knowledge in child welfare / Melissa Hardesty -- Field, capital and professional identity : social work in health care / Liz Beddoe -- Interprofessional collaboration : strengthening or weakening social work identity? / Julia Emprechtinger and Peter Voll -- Commitment in the making of professional identity / Stewart Collins -- Professional identity in the care and upbringing of children : towards a praxis of residential child care / Mark Smith -- Professional education, socialisation and readiness for practice -- Shaping identity? : the professional socialisation of social work students / Julia Wheeler -- Credible performances : affect and professional identity / Jadwiga Leigh -- Making professional identity : narrative work and fateful moments / Maura Daly and Martin Kettle -- Professional identity as a matter of concern / Stephen A. Webb -- References -- Index

Rural teachers often have difficulties to participate conventionally in professional development programs in towns. This article explains the possibility and challenge of developing an online e-learning program and forum to support rural English teacher capacity building. The research was conducted through a qualitative survey in four districts in two of fourteen counties in Kalimantan Barat province, Indonesia. The data were collected through interview and observation and were analyzed using a three-level classification system that consisted of unidimensional description, multidimensional description, and explanation. The research found that the government regulations, the transportation infrastructure, the internet connection, and the teacher readiness could support the online discussion forum. The possible design to support the forum was an asynchronous discussion forum in social media groups. The challenge was finding motivated and committed teachers to initiate and lead the forums. Based on the discussion and conclusion, the research recommends that external experts mentor the leaders in the first year. When the leaders are ready to manage the groups, the mentor can motivate the leaders to manage the groups autonomously and may collaborate with the external experts to conduct some relevant professional development programs.

This paper describes a study on online collaborative design in the context of teacher professional development. 25 teachers from different Spanish universities and disciplines participated in the study. The aim was to understand how to support teachers in interuniversity teams to collaborate fully online along the learning design process of a discipline-based situation that integrates ICT, a problem scarcely tackled in the literature. The described interpretive study, using mixed methods, explores the support to online co-design provided by a novel ICT community platform named ILDE (Integrated Learning Design Environment). Lessons drawn from the results can contribute to the improvement of online collaborative design processes in the context of teacher professional development. ; This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [project EDU2017-84223-R], the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) [projects TIN2017-85179-C3-2-R and TIN2014-53199-C3-2-R, TIN2014-53199-C3-3-R and TIN2017-85179-C3-3-R], the Regional Government of Castilla y León and the European Regional Development Fund [project VA018U16], the European Commission [project 588438-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-KA], the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [project MDM-2015-0502] and RecerCaixa (CoT).

The research horizon of teacher professional identity has been focusing a lot on formal education and emphasizing non-formal one less, although it plays an important role in fulfilling life-long education, as the Indonesian government has stated. Teacher candidates pursuing their bachelor study in English education also need to be equipped with in-depth insights on teacher interaction in English Course setting as they may also work in this non-formal education field as stated by the learning outcome goal of the association of Indonesian English Education major. This research aims to find out what profiles of professional identity English Course teachers in Yogyakarta had. An open-ended questionnaire elaborating the elements influencing teachers' professional identity was distributed to 35 English Course teachers in Yogyakarta. The results show the English Course teachers possessed positive professional identity depicted by their high job satisfaction, occupational commitment, work motivation, and self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was founded as the strongest element and occupational commitment as the weakest element constructing the profile. Factors influencing the strength and the weakness of the elements of professional identity were elaborated to provide more thorough insight on how to provide working environment in which English Course teachers could work at their best and finally to retain them.

This article describes a study of online collaborative design in the context of teacher professional development. Twenty-five teachers from different Spanish universities participated in the online course. The aim was to understand how to support teachers in interuniversity teams to collaborate fully online throughout the learning design process of a scenario based on their discipline integrating information and communications technology (ICT), an issue scarcely tackled in the literature. The described interpretive study, using mixed methods, explores the support of online co-design provided by a novel ICT community platform named ILDE (Integrated Learning Design Environment). Lessons drawn from the results can contribute to the improvement of online collaborative design processes in the context of teacher professional development. ; This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [project EDU2017-84223-R], the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) [projects TIN2017-85179-C3-2-R and TIN2014-53199-C3-2-R, TIN2014-53199-C3-3-R and TIN2017-85179-C3-3-R], the Regional Government of Castilla y León and the European Regional Development Fund [project VA018U16], the European Commission [project 588438-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-KA], the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [project MDM-2015-0502] and RecerCaixa (CoT).

Existe un amplio consenso en que el aprendizaje docente y el desarrollo profesional son factores clave de la calidad educativa. La realidad de los hechos, sin embargo, es más compleja, de manera que persisten las controversias y discusiones teóricas sobre cada una de esas cuestiones y sus relaciones. Tras enmarcar el problema, en el marco teórico se precisa la naturaleza del aprendizaje docente, la importancia de prestar atención a los resultados ligados al desarrollo profesional y se ofrece un mapa conceptual para analizarlo. En el diseño de la investigación se formulan las cuestiones planteadas, se informa de las decisiones metodológicas tomadas y se presentan los datos cuantitativos y cualitativos construidos y recabados. Al interpretar y valorar los resultados se destaca que ha habido determinados aprendizajes más y menos logrados en la formación continuada. Los más relevantes han sido desarrollados en proyectos de trabajo en los centros, los menos afectados por la formación son la atención a la diversidad, la reflexión sobre la práctica y las relaciones con familias y comunidad. Las políticas y programas de formación continuada habrían de mejorar sus finalidades y promover coherentemente condiciones y estrategias adecuadas ; It is widely agreed that the teacher's learning and professional development are key factors in the educational quality. The reality of facts is, however, more complex, and controversy and theoretical discussion persist about each of these questions and their relationships. After delimiting the problem, the nature of the teacher's learning is required in the theoretical framework, the importance of paying attention to the results linked to the professional development and a mind map is offered for its analysis. In the design of the investigation, the laid out questions are arisen, the methodological decisions taken are notified and the quantitative and qualitative data are reported, built and gathered. When interpreting and valuing the results it is stood out that there have been some learnings with a greater degree of achievement than others in the continuous training. The most relevant have been developed in projects in the work place, the least relevant for the training are attention to diversity, the reflection about the practice and the relationship with the families and the community. The politics and continuous training programmes should improve their purposes and coherently foster the appropiate conditions and strategies ; Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Escolar. Grupo FORCE (HUM386)