CONTEXT Professional identity formation plays a crucial role in the transition from medical student to doctor. At McMaster University, medical students maintain a portfolio of narrative reflections of their experiences, which provides for a rich source of data into their professional development. The purpose of this study was to understand the major influences on medical students' professional ...

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’ ...

Professional insecurity is a long standing concern within Human Resources (HR), with claims to expertise seen as critical to credibility. Considering HR as an epistemic community and drawing on the identity work literature we examine an identity threat to, and subsequent response by, a training and development (T&D) team. Based on ethnographic exposure to their practice, we explore how team mem...