The purpose of this study was to examine the intersection of preservice teachers' personal identities as queer individuals with their emerging professional identities as educators. Political and social environments contribute to a separation of these identities, which can further the marginalization of these individuals to the detriment of both their identities as people as well as their professional practice. Guided by a theoretical framework of figured worlds, interviews with students in teacher education programs that identify as queer explore the ways in which unique confluences of contextualizing factors play a role in the lived experiences of these individuals. The study additionally examined the nature of teacher education programs as experienced by these participants in order to discuss the ways in which these programs serve to challenge or reinforce the heteronormativity pervasive in educational spaces.

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This dissertation examined the assumptions and motivations that shape teachers’ participation in a service-learning practice and community of practice and how their participation affects their professional practice and identity. Framed by Santoro’s (2013) model of teacher integrity, defined as an educators’ ability to teach in alignment with their commitments, it presents an understanding of challenges to participants’ integrity, and how they mitigate those challenges. Heuristically, this project can be understood as the study of two components conducted using an ethnographic perspective over the course of 16 months: (1) the study of the community of practice and (2) the study of how its characteristics manifest in practice. It involved 100 hours of participant observation, 31 interviews, and the collection of artifact data. Data promote service-learning as a vital pedagogy by shedding light on its potential to sustain urban educators whose integrity is challenged by discourses, policies, and practices that emphasize competition and social efficiency rather than more holistic understandings of education as a civic and social good. Findings show how and why urban educators’ professional and personal commitments are intertwined with beliefs about social justice and democracy. Because of their work with student populations underprivileged and marginalized by systemic situations, meeting students’ social and emotional needs, honoring student voice, and teaching citizenship skills were important to participants. Conditions in their urban schools— a lack of curricular autonomy; insufficient time and resources to meet students’ needs; and deficient support systems— challenged participants commitments. As a result, participants were pushed to participate in service-learning and a service-learning community of practice. In addition, several characteristics of the community of practice pulled participants to participate: a framework for integrating quality service-learning into school- or school district-mandated curriculum; pedagogical and emotional supports specifically needed by urban teachers; and recognition that countered discouragingly negative perceptions of urban teachers. These resources and supports helped urban teachers’ fulfill their professional and personal commitments, validated their work, and sustained them in the profession. / Urban Education

Thesis advisor: Jon M. Wargo / Thesis advisor: Patrick Proctor / Book banning has exploded in recent years. Conflicts over what texts belong in schools have caused rifts in communities around the nation. Within English language arts (ELA) classrooms specifically, many teachers have been under scrutiny with local groups and national organizations demanding that some teachers be monitored, fired, or even arrested. Backdropped by this socio-historical moment wherein calls for book censorship and attacks against school teachers are commonplace, this three-article dissertation joins the growing scholarship that explores the challenges that arise when teachers and students dare to address topics of race, racism, gender, and sexuality in the ELA classroom. Designed as an ethnographic case study, this dissertation explores how one White ELA teacher and her sixth-grade students engaged with two regularly banned novels in a racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse classroom. The first paper employs critical Whiteness theory to examine the challenges, opportunities, and contextual factors that one White novice teacher encountered as she employed an antiracist approach to literature instruction. It offers a structural understanding of why so many White teachers attempt but fall short of delivering antiracist pedagogy effectively. The second paper traces how three students of Color in the class negotiated their emotions during conversations about race as it emerged within a literature unit. Using critical discourse analysis, I examine how language was mobilized to invite some emotions (e.g., surprise) and inhibit others (e.g., anger), manifesting as “emotional rules” that regulated students' responses to texts. The third paper examines how two LGBTQ+ youths engaged in literacy not only as a medium for identity work, but as a way to speak back to the social, political, and institutional contexts of their schooling. Placing the theatrical performances that queer youth wrote and directed at the center of my analysis, I submit that these literacy activities are a means of understanding how youth see themselves in the world. Taken together, these articles extend the scholarship on how teachers engage their students on issues of difference through literature, raising important questions about how sociopolitical tensions take shape through moments of silence and cheer in the ELA classroom. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teaching, Curriculum, and Society.

Este estudo compreende uma investigação sobre uma professora iniciante de Ciências da rede estadual de São Paulo através do método etnográfico. A principal questão desta pesquisa é compreender como a confrontação inicial e a socialização na cultura profissional condicionam e orientam possíveis conflitos identitários importantes para a construção e formação docente. Abarcando autores que discorrem sobre a identidade docente e o desenvolvimento profissional, este estudo tem como base a teoria sociológica da construção das identidades profissionais de Claude Dubar. A produção dos dados se deu dentro de um processo etnográfico no qual, durante 14 meses, foram acompanhadas a socialização inicial, as interações e os conflitos através da observação de aulas, reuniões pedagógicas, a interação com o sujeito e o cotidiano escolar. A sistematização e análise dos dados foram realizadas desde o processo etnográfico com continuidade após o afastamento do sujeito e do campo de forma a identificar elementos e conflitos identitários da professora de Ciências, a recepção a essa professora iniciante na cultura escolar e os caminhos que surgem desse processo para a formação continuada e desenvolvimento profissional. Foram identificados elementos da identidade docente em construção, desconstrução e reconstrução dessa professora em socialização, como seu papel social e a relação com os alunos, colegas e gestores, expondo conflitos e estratégias identitárias importantes nesse processo de início de carreira. Foi possível apontar que apesar da insegurança e das diversas dificuldades apresentadas, a professora constrói seus mecanismos de sobrevivência e vivencia de forma profunda seu processo de construção identitária profissional, prevalecendo o desejo e a busca pela formação profissional e a continuidade na profissão. / This study includes an investigation of a beginning science teacher from the state of São Paulo (Brazil) through the ethnographic method. The main question of this research is to understand how the initial confrontation and the socialization in the professional culture condition and guide potential conflicts of identity that are important for the construction of identity and teacher education. Covering authors discussing teacher identity and professional development, this study has bases on the sociological theory of the construction of professional identities of Claude Dubar. The data produced within an ethnographic process, during 14 months, includes the initial socialization, interactions and conflicts monitored through the observation of classes, pedagogic meetings, interaction with the subject and the daily school life. The systematization and analysis of the data were carried out from the ethnographic process with continuity after the distance from the subject and the field, in order to identify identity elements and conflicts of the science teacher, the reception to this beginning teacher in the school culture and the paths that guide the process for continuing education and professional development. Elements of teacher identity in construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of this teacher in socialization were identified, such as her social role and the relationship with students, colleagues and managers, exposing conflicts and important identity strategies in this early career process. It was possible to point out that in spite of the insecurity and the various difficulties presented, the teacher builds her mechanisms of survival and experiences in a profound way her process of professional identity construction, prevailing the desire and the search for professional training and continuity in the profession.

A investigação, de abordagem qualitativa, consiste em um estudo de caso, cujo escopo fundamenta-se na análise de como as experiências vivenciadas pelos estudantes em um Curso de Formação Inicial de Professores Licenciatura em Artes Visuais (LAV), em uma Instituição de Ensino Superior Privada no interior do Estado de São Paulo são constitutivas da identificação profissional docente. Parte-se da hipótese de que no desenvolvimento da identidade docente também compreendida como o processo de identificação com a profissão escolhida: professor de Artes Visuais as experiências vivenciadas pelos licenciandos durante o itinerário formativo inicial (a graduação) terminam por criar brechas de ruptura com as crenças e as representações cristalizadas da docência (com as quais os estudantes adentram a Licenciatura), possibilitando a assunção de outros modos de ser e de estar na profissão. Para tanto, fez-se necessária uma compreensão mais ampla dos sentidos que os discentes manifestam sobre seu percurso formativo, com base em três eixos fundamentais (a) as representações da docência, (b) os saberes docentes, e (c) da experiência como reflexão e transformação de si e da profissão de professor resgatando-se como referencial teórico sobre a identidade profissional, os estudos de Nóvoa (1995) e Garcia (1999; 2009). Para a coleta de dados, foram adotados os seguintes procedimentos: análise de documentos, questionário e entrevista semiestruturada. E os procedimentos de análise foram alicerçados pelos pressupostos da Análise de Conteúdo (BARDIN, 1977). Os caminhos escolhidos possibilitaram caracterizar e analisar o conjunto das representações, intenções, ações e práticas que os estudantes desenvolveram ao longo do seu processo de formação profissional, bem como a relação entre os saberes da experiência, do conhecimento pedagógico e do conhecimento específico em Artes Visuais como dimensões fundamentais à construção da identidade profissional do professor e de uma formação inicial de professores que se paute pela atribuição de sentidos ao longo do seu itinerário formativo. Entretanto, a análise dos dados também evidenciou que a formação desses professores vem sendo conduzida por uma epistemologia dos saberes das disciplinas (NÓVOA, 1999), em que os saberes específicos das Artes Visuais enquanto um saber fazer são priorizados em detrimento aos saberes pedagógicos e aos saberes da experiência; além de colocarem a formação docente em um patamar menor, as análises demonstraram a dificuldade desta formação inicial em promover a articulação efetiva entre teoria e prática. Por fim, o estudo confere visibilidade à urgência dos cursos de formação inicial de professores em Artes Visuais atentarem para as experiências formativas e simbólicas e para as representações sociais que constituem a identidade profissional dos licenciandos, criando mecanismos de articulação entre teoria, prática e experiência e de outros modos de ser/estar na profissão e na própria vida. / The research, of qualitative approach, consists of a case study, whose scope is based on the analysis of how the experiences of the students in an Initial Teacher Training Course Degree in Visual Arts in a private Higher Education Institution in São Paulo State are constitutive of the teaching professional identity. It starts with the hypothesis that the development of teacher identity also understood as the process of approximation and identification with the chosen profession: Visual Arts teacher the experiences of the licensees during the initial formation process (graduation) end up creating gaps in the beliefs and crystallized representations of teaching (with which students step into the Degree), enabling other ways of being and living in the profession. For this purpose, it was necessary a broader understanding of the way the students express their training, based on three fundamental pillars: (a) the representations of teaching, (b) the teaching knowledge and (c) the experience as reflection and transformation of themselves and of teaching, rescuing, as a theoretical framework on the professional identity, the works by Nóvoa (1995) and Garcia (1999; 2009). The data collection procedures, the questionnaire, and the semi-structured interview were adopted for the analysis of documents. The testing procedures, in turn, were grounded by the assumptions of Content Analysis (BARDIN, 1977). The chosen paths allow to characterize and analyze the set of representations, intentions, actions and practices that students develop throughout their training process as well as the relationship between the knowledge of experience, pedagogical knowledge and specific knowledge in Visual Arts as fundamental dimensions to the construction of the teachers professional identity and the initial training of teachers to be guided by assigning meanings throughout their formative itinerary. However, the data analysis also showed that the formation of these teachers has been conducted by an epistemology of knowledge of the subjects (NÓVOA, 1999), in which specific knowledge of Visual Arts as a know-how are prioritized over the pedagogical knowledge and the knowledge from experience; besides getting teachers training at a lower level, the analysis showed the difficulty of this initial training to promote effective coordination between theory and practice. Finally, the study gives visibility to the urgency of the initial training courses for Visual Arts teachers to observe the formative and symbolic experiences and the social representations that constitute the professional identity of undergraduates, creating mechanisms of articulation between theory, practice and experience and other ways of being / living in the profession and in life itself.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-11-30T17:09:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jozimeire Angélica Stocco de Camargo Neves da Silva.pdf: 21151123 bytes, checksum: 5e4b85d3804642e1ea52aa2b64abef35 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-30T17:09:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jozimeire Angélica Stocco de Camargo Neves da Silva.pdf: 21151123 bytes, checksum: 5e4b85d3804642e1ea52aa2b64abef35 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The research The Professional Law Education Teacher: the identity building process and teaching knowledge during life trajectories is an investigation with professors who teach in the Graduate courses Sensu Lato, Law School of São Bernardo do Campo. The approach is about building identity and teaching knowledge of law professors during the trajectories of how they engage in teaching, without specific training, influenced by legal practice, as well as foregrounding the issues of training, professionalism and teaching procedure in these courses, contextualizing the Institution where the research took place and composing a frame of reference for reflection on the legal teaching. The study was conducted from the assumptions of the qualitative dimension, involving document analysis and reflective research through various procedures. In the focus of this study, we sought theoretical support from the authors that address the themes: Narratives of Life (Josso, 2007), Teacher Training in Contemporaneity (Feldmann, 2009; Novoa, 2000); Teacher Training (Nóvoa, 2000); Teaching Profession (Sacristán, 1998, 2000, 2013); Professionalization and Professionalism (Contreras, 2002; Tardiff 2012, 2014; Perrenoud 1999, 2002); Professor of Higher Education (Masetto, 2003, 2010, 2012 and 2013). We conclude that the teachers participating in this research have learned to be teachers and "are being it" in the trajectories that enabled the acquisition of knowledge and possible interaction with the student and the institution in which they work, and this can contribute to the construction of their identity process and that there is a collective identity of belonging to the mastership, even without training related to university teaching / A Pesquisa O Profissional Docente do Ensino do Direito: o processo de construção da identidade e saberes docentes durante as trajetórias de vida é uma investigação realizada com professores que lecionam nos Cursos de Pós- Graduação Lato Sensu da Faculdade de Direito de São Bernardo do Campo. A abordagem é sobre a construção de identidade e saberes docentes dos professores de Direito durante as trajetórias, de como exercem a docência, sem ter formação específica, influenciados pela prática jurídica, além de tematizar as questões da formação, da profissionalidade e do fazer docente nesses cursos, contextualizar a Instituição onde ocorreu a pesquisa e compor um quadro de referência para a reflexão sobre a docência jurídica. O estudo foi realizado a partir dos pressupostos da dimensão qualitativa, envolvendo análise documental e investigação reflexiva por meio de diversos procedimentos. No foco desse trabalho, buscamos aporte teórico a partir dos autores que abordam as temáticas: Narrativas de Vida (Josso, 2007), Formação Docente na Contemporaneidade (Feldmann, 2009; Nóvoa, 2000); Formação de Professores (Nóvoa, 2000); Profissão Docente (Sacristán, 1998, 2000, 2013); Profissionalização e Profissionalidade (Contreras, 2002; Tardiff 2012, 2014; Perrenoud 1999, 2002); Professor do Ensino Superior (Masetto, 2003, 2010, 2012 e 2013). Conclui-se que os professores participantes dessa investigação aprenderam a ser docentes e o estão sendo nas trajetórias que possibilitaram aquisição de conhecimento e na interação possível com o aluno e com a instituição em que trabalham, sendo que essa pode contribuir com a construção do processo identitário deles e que há uma identidade coletiva de pertencimento ao magistério, mesmo sem formação relacionada ao magistério superior

This thesis documents my exploration of professional development of four experienced English language teachers of diverse background taking the MA TESOL programme at the University of Manchester. Having considered professional development to be about change construed broadly to professional identity and teacher beliefs, I explored it through a series of individual in-depth interviews held throughout the programme. The majority of the interviews focused on the teachers' ongoing life and development and allowed the teachers space to make meaning of what they were going through and how they were developing as they engaged in the programme. On the basis of the interviews, stories about the teachers and their year were constructed. Within the stories, I synthesized what I had learned about the teachers' experience and highlighted the changes that I could see had happened to their professional identity and teacher beliefs. The stories provide a vivid example of professional development of experienced English language teachers through a master's degree. They also bring to the fore the significance of future-directed thoughts for how teachers develop professionally, which is rarely acknowledged in the existing literature. I further use the stories as a ground to conceptualize professional development of the four teachers to account for the important role their thoughts about the future played in it. Using the concepts of imagined identity and antenarrative, which I borrow from the literature, I describe it as an iterative pursuit of an ever-evolving imagined identity, or identities, and antenarrative, or antenarratives. Finally, I examine the cases using the conceptualization as a lens and offer some further insights about professional development in TESOL.