Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching Profession
Framed by symbolic interactionism, this study used narrative inquiry to share a teacher’s story about her decision to pursue and depart the teaching profession within four years of graduating from a traditional undergraduate preparation program in the Midwest United States. The participant, “Banjo,”...
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| description | Framed by symbolic interactionism, this study used narrative inquiry to share a teacher’s story about her decision to pursue and depart the teaching profession within four years of graduating from a traditional undergraduate preparation program in the Midwest United States. The participant, “Banjo,” participated in a qualitative analysis that consisted of four interviews conducted during the first year following her departure from the field. Findings revealed several conflicts surrounding Banjo’s sense of pre- and in-service teacher identity and teacher preparation experiences that ultimately influenced her decision to leave the teaching profession. Banjo’s story provides critical insights about how to prevent similar challenges among early-career practitioners and facilitate progressive change in preservice teacher education writ large. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed17d18e234641e98fff54d73139d7ab2022-12-21T21:56:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2021-03-01610.3389/feduc.2021.586212586212Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching ProfessionTiffany Karalis NoelFramed by symbolic interactionism, this study used narrative inquiry to share a teacher’s story about her decision to pursue and depart the teaching profession within four years of graduating from a traditional undergraduate preparation program in the Midwest United States. The participant, “Banjo,” participated in a qualitative analysis that consisted of four interviews conducted during the first year following her departure from the field. Findings revealed several conflicts surrounding Banjo’s sense of pre- and in-service teacher identity and teacher preparation experiences that ultimately influenced her decision to leave the teaching profession. Banjo’s story provides critical insights about how to prevent similar challenges among early-career practitioners and facilitate progressive change in preservice teacher education writ large.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.586212/fullteacher educationteacher identitysymbolic interaction theorypreservice teacherin-service teachernarrative inquiry |
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| title | Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching Profession |
| title_full | Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching Profession |
| title_fullStr | Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching Profession |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching Profession |
| title_short | Identity Tensions: Understanding a Previous Practitioner’s Decision to Pursue and Depart the Teaching Profession |
| title_sort | identity tensions understanding a previous practitioner s decision to pursue and depart the teaching profession |
| topic | teacher education teacher identity symbolic interaction theory preservice teacher in-service teacher narrative inquiry |
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