Who Am I as a Teacher?
Migrant Teachers' Redefined Professional Identity

This Element provides insight into migrant teachers' experiences in a new educational context, and how teacher education can support them.

Annika Käck (Author)

9781009341011, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 January 2025

84 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.14 kg

Redefined transformative learning refers to learning that implies a change in the learner's identity, which includes cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions and is something all teachers, in this case migrant teachers, experience and negotiate when meeting a new educational context. “Who am I as a teacher in a new country?” migrant teachers ask themselves. To understand oneself as a teacher, one must identify and coordinate the past and present with a future direction, which causes migrant teachers to talk about a transformed professional identity with additional skills. This Element concerns migrant teachers' transformation, how they redefine their professional identity, and how to support this in teacher education.

1. Introduction
2. Migrant teachers and transformative learning
3. Teacher educators from other countries
4. Conclusion and future directions
References.

Subject Areas: Educational strategies & policy [JNF]