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Teacher Development
An international journal of teachers' professional development
Volume 19, 2015 - Issue 1
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Theorizing teacher identity: self-narratives and finding place in an audit society

Pages 79-96 | Received 05 Mar 2012, Accepted 28 Aug 2013, Published online: 11 Dec 2014
 

Abstract

Noting the need for richer theories of identity and identity formation in education, the author describes aspects of D. P. McAdams’ psychosocial constructivist framework enriched by select concepts drawn from Life Course research for conceptualizing and analyzing identity development within audit-driven societies and educational systems. Drawing on the language and concepts of the framework, the author illustrates some of its interpretative power by conducting a ‘close reading’, a method drawn from literary theory, of portions of a head teacher’s published self-narrative.

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