Description
Book SynopsisPrevious scholars have investigated aspects of the complexity of teacher identity and demonstrated the need to look beyond skills and generalized best practices to consider social processes and power relationships. However, few books focus on teacher identities at both the micro and macro levels. In this timely book, the authors argue that teacher identity awareness is crucial for both preservice and in-service teachers who desire deeper knowledge about the role of identities in effective instruction. The Complex Development of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Identities breaks new theoretical ground in understanding teacher identities by bringing a process drama lens to bear on development at the macro and micro levels. Process drama uses dramatic structures such as teacher in role, students in role, tableau and others to activate imaginations and explore interpretive possibilities. Through this lens Crumpler and Handsfield show how teacher identities are performed, reproduc
Trade Review
"There has been a lot written about teacher identity, but Reimagining Teacher Identity Researchby veteran literacy scholars Thomas Crumpler and Lara Handsfield is a game changer. It provides a fine-grained analysis of teaching and learning that does not shy away addressing power dynamics and social reproduction. At the same time, it points toward the possibilities of genuine teacher agency and social transformation through drama and the critical imagination. A much-needed study in this period of mechanistic and decontextualized pedagogical practices." --Gerald Campano, Ph.D. Professor Chair, Literacy, Culture, and International Education (LCIE) Division Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania Co-Editor, Research in the Teaching of English Co-Convenor, Ethnography in Education Research Forum
Table of Contents
List of Figures – List of Tables – Brian Edmiston: Foreword – Acknowledgments – Introduction – The Complexities of Teacher Identity – Setting the Stage: Scenes of Inquiry in Pre- and Inservice Teacher Development – First Interlude—Dylan – Identity as Becoming in Professional Development: Isabel’s Multiple Positioning – Mobile Literacies, Scaling Practices, and Mobile Identities – Performing Multiple Identities in Student Teaching – Second Interlude—Camille – Exploring Teacher Identity Development Through Study Groups – Reimagining Teacher Identity Research—A Dramatic Approach – Index.
