Travessias (Nov 2011)
ENGLISH TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES:THE (RE)CONSTRUCTION IN THE FACE OF THE OTHERS
Abstract
ABSTRACT: A group of four English teachers, in different moments of their career (two of them initiate-teachers, one collaborative-teacher and one teacher-of-teacher), report its experience of having participated in critical-collaborative meetings. Through the analysis of their (the teachers) speeches, we intend to identify discursive evidences concerning the (RE)construction of their professional identities in this process. Our purpose is based on the idea of autonomous conceptions of I, revealed by these individuals and also on the (RE)elaborations of this I in the face of negation and/or identification of/with the others. KEYWORDS: Teacher training; professional identity; collaborative learning.