"Maintain a Positive Attitude": An Exploration of the Discourses Available in One Teacher Education Program

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Abstract

This paper describes an approach to studying how the process of learning to teach involves adopting and enacting a new identity and negotiating the relationship between this new identity and previous identities. Careful attention to teacher identity development requires a new approach to the assessment of teacher education students and programs. In this paper, we explore a discursive approach to the assessment of teacher education programs through analyzing the discourses one teacher education program at a large public, research university in the Southwestern United States made available to its students.

Authors

• Laura C. Haniford, University of New Mexico

• Jamie Collins, University of New Mexico