Full Description
Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the characteristics of the millennial teachers now beginning to populate K-12 classrooms. Building off the first edition, this text is based on a qualitative, interview-based research study, and provides a contemporary look at how millennial teachers experience professional identity growth through language use. This innovative research investigates how formation of a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. Updated with new analyses of teacher identity discourses, the second edition covers themes that still resonate today and provides practical suggestions and sample assignments for teacher educators to use or adapt in methods courses.
Contents
Preface: Can the Master's Tools Destroy the Master's House?
Chapter 1: A Teaching Life, Re-visited: How and Why this Project Came to Be
Chapter 2: What Does it Mean to be a Millennial Secondary School Teacher? The Paradoxical Chase
Chapter 3: Living the Contradiction: Narratives of Opposition
Chapter 4: Who's in Control? Stories of Authority and Vulnerability
Chapter 5: What Does a Teacher Look Like? Narratives of the Teacher Persona
Chapter 6: Using Discourse to Create a Teacher Identity: Narratives of Balance
Chapter 7: Seeking Identity Through Images: Metaphors of Teacher Self
Chapter 8: To Know Thyself, Again: Teacher Identity Discourses for a New Generation
Appendix A: Class Syllabus
Appendix B: Interview Protocols
Appendix C: Sample Assignments
Index
