'Fitting in' or 'being different'? Integration, separation, and identity construction during a teaching practicum in Hong Kong

'Fitting in' or 'being different'? Integration, separation, and identity construction during a teaching practicum in Hong Kong

• Trent, John Gilbert The Education University of Hong Kong

Teacher Development, 2018

Routledge

2018

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers

Teacher Identity Teaching Practicum Discourse Analysis Teacher Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper reports the results of a qualitative study that examined the perspectives of one group of teacher educators and pre-service teachers about a teaching internship in Hong Kong. Reflecting recent interest in both a practice turn in pre-service teacher education as well as teacher identity construction, the study uses in-depth interviews to reveal how both teacher educators and pre-service teachers construct the meaning of a teaching internship. The results suggest that two discourses dominate such meanings: the discourse of integration and the discourse of separation. The study not only reveals the presence of these discourses but, moreover, considers how their interplay provides affordances for and constraints upon the capacity of pre-service teachers to construct their professional identities during the teaching internship. This exploration suggests that this interplay can lead to identity conflict for pre-service teachers. Implications for overcoming such conflict in ways that support the construction of pre-service teachers' professional identities are considered and suggestions for future comparative research discussed. Copyright © 2018 Teacher Development.

• English

Journal Articles

• 13664530

• 10.1080/13664530.2018.1466722

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/ae29b46f

2018-09-10