@inbook{2b6a4226af15463cb509e3326275982c,
title = "An Ethico-political Analysis of Teacher Identity Construction",
abstract = "An increasing number of studies have been carried out on teacher identities, but there are few studies exploring how individuals could enact their ethical agency to consider the possibilities of comprising their teacher identities differently. In this chapter, I attempted to investigate the understanding of teacher and teaching profession among a group of pre-service teachers in Hong Kong and their discursive determination in identity construction. The findings indicate that teacher identities are contingent and constructed, and that the notion of the ethico-politics of teacher identity opens up scope for moving beyond the narrowing of focus on particular meanings of teaching and enables the teachers to build ethical agency for identity reformation and reconstruction.",
keywords = "Agency, Ethical formation, Politics, Teacher identity",
author = "John Trent and Xuesong Gao and Mingyue Gu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-7392-9\_11",
language = "English",
series = "Multilingual Education",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "179--192",
booktitle = "Multilingual Education",
address = "Germany",
}