Examining the Relevance of Ethnographic Practices in Researching Teacher Identity in Preservice Teacher Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42022029Keywords:
ethnography, ethnographic, identity, preservice teacher educationAbstract
This paper advocates the relevance of ethnography as a methodology for researching preservice teacher education. The research underpinning this paper demonstrates the importance and relevance of the ethnographic imagination for examining the formation and development of preservice teacher identity, offering a means of capturing the lived experience of learning to teach from the perspective of those entering the profession. The experience of learning to teach on three graduate-level teacher education pathways in the South of England is explored using ethnographic methods. The yearlong immersion in three different research sites and subsequent thematic analysis of the generated data gives insight into the formation of the teacher identity, foregrounding the importance of place in the experiential journey of the preservice teacher. The comprehensive data generated from this study gives unique insight into how ethnographic practices can reveal the developmental process of teacher identity and has relevance for teacher educators and researchers internationally.
Received: 8 November 2023 | Revised: 21 December 2023 | Accepted: 3 January 2024
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares that she has no conflicts of interest to this work.
Data Availability Statement
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Author
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Funding data
-
Economic and Social Research Council
Grant numbers ES/P000703/1