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Negotiating Identities in the Transitions of Early Career Teachers: International Perspectives

Sun, April 15, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: First Level, West Room 109&110

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium draws on the work of four research teams, from four countries studying early career teachers’ transitions into teaching. By adopting a conceptual frame of teacher identity and a range of methodologies, this set of papers opens up alternative understandings of beginning teachers’ transitions into teaching as well as their possible transitions out of teaching. In addition to presenting research findings from each group, each group will also explore the policy and practice implications of their work in order to better understand how we might work toward creating situations for beginning teachers that nurture and sustain teachers’ unfolding identities. Two discussants, from two additional contexts, will take up the “So what?” question of the research for schools, teachers, and teacher education.

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