Teachers are meant to be orthodox’
Narrative and counter narrative in the discursive construction of ‘identity’ in teaching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12214747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cate Watson (0000-0003-1807-6460, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 469-483 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09518390902736520 |
| OpenAlex | W2048170224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 22 |
Narratives are important to us not only or even primarily because they tell about our past lives, but because they enable us to make sense of the present. We attempt to create coherence and give meaning to our lives by learning to read time backwards. This paper examines a counter narrative of entry into the teaching profession showing how the construction of one teacher’s identity is presented as a biographical narrative that he assumes to be at odds with an ‘orthodox’ narrative of becoming a teacher. The paper offers an interpretation of the personal narrative, told as counter to an assumed ‘orthodox’ story of entry into teaching. It also examines the relationship between the personal narrative and the contested site of the master narrative and its counter as the point at which the individual both positions themselves and is positioned within the discourse of teaching
Aesthetics · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy · Epistemology · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative history · Narrative inquiry · Narrative network · Narrative psychology · Pedagogy · Personal narrative · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Constructing International School Teacher Identity from Lived Experience
(Trans)formation of student teachers’ professional identity through problem-based learning in Korea
The teacher as designer, scientist and technician
Empowering swimmers and their bodies in and through research
Student identity construction in online teacher education
How teachers’ appraisals predict their emotional experience
Dichotomies of method and practice
Storylines
Intertextuality
Considering counter narratives
Narratives of practice and the construction of identity in teaching
Discourse Theory and Political Analysis
Feminism/Postmodernism
Thematized Echoes
Curriculum
Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
Blame it on psychology
Positioning
The Postmodern Condition
Citizenship and Political Identity
Unreliable narrators? 'Inconsistency' (and some inconstancy) in interviews
Poetics, Dramatics, and Transgressive Validity
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |