A Narrative Inquiry into Pre-Service English Teachers' Imagined Identities

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  • María Cristina Sarasa Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.246

Keywords:

Higher Education, in-service English teacher education, narrative inquiry, identity co-construction process

Abstract

This paper explores co-construction processes of EIL (English as an international language) pre-service teacher identity in an undergraduate English Teacher Education Program at an Argentinean state university. The study focuses on the professional nature of future language teachers’ identities expressed in the
individual stories the young people co-composed with the author working as participant researcher. The design employed narrative inquiry as a research methodology whose techniques allow the gathering of field texts inside and outside the Program’s classrooms. The overall study included 24 sophomores
whose professional identities were conceptualized narratively during the 18-month-long inquiry. This paper offers four participants’ accounts, evincing the co-authoring of an imagined (future) teacher identity. After rendering the students’ stories, we briefly discuss some implications this power of envisioning the (prospective) teaching self may have for EIL teacher education

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Published

2016-06-23

How to Cite

Sarasa, M. C. (2016). A Narrative Inquiry into Pre-Service English Teachers’ Imagined Identities. GIST – Education and Learning Research Journal, (12), 96–114. https://doi.org/10.26817/16925777.246

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