Opettajaidentiteetin rakentuminen ammatillisessa opettajankoulutuksessa
Keywords:
ammatillinen opettajankoulutus, identiteettityö, positiointi, narratiivisuus, ohjaus, vocational teacher education, identity work, positioning, narrativity, guidanceAbstract
In this article we analyze teacher students ́ identity work that appears in the narratives concerning their studies. The context of the research is vocational teacher education. The professional growth of a teacher and the formulation of teacher’s profession are primarily understood as a narrative identity work. This narrative identity work is based on teacher student’s own action and meaning-giving in individual, communal and societal context. The pedagogical principals for supporting the identity work used in this research were action, authenticity, participation and guidance. The empirical data comprise four the- matical interviews of teacher students. The interviews focused on how the teacher students experience and perceive themselves as vocational teachers after participating in the group process in vocational teacher education. The data was analyzed by a method based on positioning approach. The focus of positioning was to analyse how teacher students position themselves in reference to different frameworks of teacher identity and teachers’ identity processes. The results of this research show that the transition from a subject expert to being a member of a teachers’ profession is not only based on acquiring, processing and applying new knowledge but it also requires time and space for reformulating and restructuring the meaning structures related to teacher’s profession, the identity work. In order to support teacher students’ identity work it is necessary to focus not only on the knowledge and methods of teaching. The crucial parts of identity work are meanings given to being a teacher based on teacher stu- dents own experience. They initiate the process of recognizing teacher students’ own teacher narrative, reflection and reformulation of teacher identity.
