Concept

Teacher Professional Identity

Teachers' negotiated understanding of who they are and may become in relation to professional work, contexts, and others.

Overview

Teachers' negotiated understanding of who they are and may become in relation to professional work, contexts, and others.

Teacher Identity TheoryCore concept source: It is an analytic account of professional self-relation, not a fixed trait or Bourdieu's habitus.

Self-descriptions, role claims, dilemmas, interactional positioning, and role-expectation documents may be analysed.

Coding any attitude, demographic category, or stable personality trait as identity.

Geert Kelchtermans — Existing scholar page provides a related self-understanding lens.

VerifiedThe linked record provides the source-specific vocabulary and bibliographic anchor for this concept page. — Beijaard, D., Meijer, P. C., & Verloop, N. (2004). Reconsidering research on teachers' professional identity. Teaching and Teacher Education, 20(2), 107-128.
Editorially ReviewedThe definition, cross-theory distinction, related-entity explanation, and misuse warning are Syntag editorial synthesis, not a quotation or universal consensus.
Research GuidanceObservable research manifestations are study-dependent options, not a measurement recipe or automatic inference.

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