The HOW PRE-SERVICE TEACHER BUILT UP IDENTITY, A STORY FROM A PRE-SERVICE TEACHER IN INDONESIA
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Purpose: This research is aimed to (1) explain what experiences of building teacher identity have been important to the participant; (2) to explain how the experiences construct the participant’s EFL teacher identity; and (3) to explain what can be learnt from the experiences of this building identity.
Design/methodology/approach: To conduct this research, the researcher use narrative inquiry, to understand the lived experience of an individual. A participant, named Mawar (pseudonym), participates in this research. She is willing to re-tell her lived experiences in building her teacher identity and how she describer professional teacher identity. To collect the data, the researcher uses semi structured (open-ended questions) interview. The data gathered, then, are analized through Clandinin and Huber (2010) way.
Findings: The results show, firstly, it is found that some of the participant’s lived story are significant in constructing her understanding about professional teaacher identity (PTI); especially when she got Microteaching program and guidance from her lecturer’s of becoming professional teacher. The second result is found that the participant is categorized as subject specialist and didactical expert (Beijaard et al; 2.000 in Putten, 2021), due to her narrations of telling her experiences to become a professional teacher. Finally, through this research it is found that the participant is motivated to develope progressively her teaching skills to skale up her profesional identity of teaching.
Research limitations/implications: This research uses only one participant. Insufficient data may be happened.
Practical implications: The results of the research are practically expected to the reader to understand about teacher identity and how it is built. Further more, the readers (either teachers or students) who are interested in the domain of identity in its relation to teaching aspect could use this research as one of supportif data.
Originality/value: This is my oroginal research.
Paper type: Research paper.
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