Identity and Teacher Professional Development: A Reflective, Collaborative and Agentive Learning Journey - Paperback

by Maria Antonietta Impedovo (Author)

This book addressed teachers' necessity to be able to respond to the new needs and demands caused by an ever-evolving educational system, as recognized in the national and international policy and research literature. The book proposes an analysis of the features that shape the journey of the teacher profession and professionalism, a journey which needs to be collaborative, agentive and dialogical:

- Collaborative in changing the personal and professional teacher development from an individual and solitude process toward a joint discovery with mutual enrichment and shared directionality;

- Agentive in the ability to activate internal and external resources for an individual, productive and communicative transformation;

- Dialogical in the ability to enrich the personal narrative with the voices of others and opening spaces for dialogue and listening.

The seven chapters are structured in a way that gives flow and pace to the unfolding story of the developing teacher identity and is informed by a whole range of research and literature. This book serves as a reference point for teacher-students, in-service teachers and teacher educators who are interested in their professional development and looking for new perspectives. It also offers some helpful insights for administrators who need to make ICT decisions on course development in teacher education.

Author Biography

Maria Antonietta Impedovo, PhD, is Associate Professor at Aix-Marseille University, France. Since 2014, she teaches at School of Education in a master course addressed mainly to teacher-students. Since 2010, she has been actively participating in multiple national and international formative and research projects about teacher professional developing. Her main research interests are cultural and educational psychology. Her current research centres on learning and developing across contexts, technology-mediated learning, and professional developing. About these topics, she has written peer-reviewed papers in Italian, Spanish, French and English.