Putting Theory into Practice: Moving from Student Identity to Teacher Identity

Putting Theory into Practice

Preschool Teacher Identity

The teaching process cannot be simplified to definitions of the best teachers as those possessing certain desirable teaching behaviours and skills (Katz, 2002). Although there are numerous factors that significantly influence learning and teaching, one might agree that specific teaching roles dominantly determine the quality of preschool teaching processes and learning outcomes. Furthermore, tw...

Teacher Identity from a Bourdieuian Perspective

This paper draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to understand the resistance of teacher education graduates to their University learning and the alignment with the field of education. This is a perplexing and perennial problem in teacher education. Bourdieu’s theory offers concepts that allow this situation to be theorized through notions of identity and the wider social, cultural arena within ...

On State, Identity and Rights: Putting Identity First

The paper considers the nature of the state understood as the political unity articulated on the basis of a collective identity which provides the state with its capacity to make decisions. The foremost decision of the state to protect and defend this identity is the source of its authority to enforce laws. Collective identity thus represents an object of special interest, unlike both ‘‘politic...

Web-based development: Putting practice into theory

Against the backdrop of the current web development arena, this paper sketches an overview of work done by the author towards achieving a higher-level abstraction to program web applications to. The paper illuminates unexpected problems encountered when applying these theoretical ideas in practice and points out a number of directions for future research. In conclusion, the paper takes a brief ...