Professional identity at risk: Teacher professional life cycle in an era of excellence and accountability

Professional identity at risk: Teacher professional life cycle in an era of excellence and accountability

• Choi, Pik Lin Jocelyn The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Tang, Yee Fan Sylvia The Hong Kong Institute of Education

2005

Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: Demography and Democracy in the Era of Accountability (2005: Montréal, Quebec)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MH Teacher Evaluation : Teacher Effectiveness

Teacher Education and Professional Development Teacher Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This paper presents evidence that contemporary teachers in Hong Kong are confronted with professional role diffusion. The phase of stabilization, which characterized many teachers with four to six years of teaching experience in Huberman’s (1989) study, seems to have deferred. In a life history study of four teachers with six to ten year teaching experiences, the absence of a stabilization phase was found in the professional life of the informants. It is argued that the quest of excellence and accountability in school education has contributed to a prolonged period of survival and discovery phase and a rapid recurrence of stabilized and destabilized cycle.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: Demography and Democracy in the Era of Accountability

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/884dd928

2015-03-17