TY - JOUR
T1 - What do you mean by "teacher"?
T2 - Psychological research on teacher professional identity
AU - Tateo, Luca
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Teacher Professional Identity is today an autonomous theoretical construct. The paper explores the dimensions of TPI stressed in psychological and educational research, presenting different answers provided to questions such as: Which dimensions have been taken into account to define what a teacher is? The image of teachers actually emerging from literature analysis points out vectors of tension between "mainstream" Social Representations of teacher and everyday experience; between different perceptions of TPI; between established practices and innovation in teaching; between technical rationalist assumptions and lived experience of teachers' job, involving ethical and emotional nature of teaching; and, definitely, between "reality-as-it-is" and "reality-to-be" in teaching. These questions are closely connected to the wider social debate on the future of education. Asking what a teacher is also implies questions about what a "good" teacher is, what should be and, consequently, what are the role and the Social Representations of teachers in society.
AB - Teacher Professional Identity is today an autonomous theoretical construct. The paper explores the dimensions of TPI stressed in psychological and educational research, presenting different answers provided to questions such as: Which dimensions have been taken into account to define what a teacher is? The image of teachers actually emerging from literature analysis points out vectors of tension between "mainstream" Social Representations of teacher and everyday experience; between different perceptions of TPI; between established practices and innovation in teaching; between technical rationalist assumptions and lived experience of teachers' job, involving ethical and emotional nature of teaching; and, definitely, between "reality-as-it-is" and "reality-to-be" in teaching. These questions are closely connected to the wider social debate on the future of education. Asking what a teacher is also implies questions about what a "good" teacher is, what should be and, consequently, what are the role and the Social Representations of teachers in society.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873924091&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1590/S0102-71822012000200012
DO - 10.1590/S0102-71822012000200012
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84873924091
SN - 0102-7182
VL - 24
SP - 344
EP - 353
JO - Psicologia e Sociedade
JF - Psicologia e Sociedade
IS - 2
ER -