Abstract The paper analyses six professional narratives in a workplace meeting. first part presents the theoretical framework, namely definition, types of and approaches to identity main features narratives, structure, function, narrator’s roles. underlying assumption is that speakers display particular facets their considering environment type interaction which they are engaged change dependin...

This study is a mixed method research that investigated the effect of electronic collaborative discussion forum on Iranian EFL teachers' engagement and professional identity and their development in terms of teachers‘ competences as they were engaged in collaborative teacher inquiry. For this purpose, 5 EFL teachers participated in 11 online forum discussion sessions. Before participating in di...

To explore the impact of teacher training on the professional identity of primary and secondary school mental health teachers, this study conducted a half-month professional development training program to 54 primary and secondary school mental health teachers, and performed measurement on the professional identity of the teachers in the experimental group and the control group with “Teachers’ ...

Entrepreneurship mostly occurs in business studies after general education. This study considers how the informant, Anna, first identified herself as a young music hobbyist, then musician and teacher, finally an entrepreneur music. The main question driving this narrative is, ‘How might identity formation processes teacher influence music?’ Anna is example of individual who possesses non-busine...