Identity as experience – an interactionist approach
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Identity studies tend to draw on participatory frameworks. Some focus on identities on offer in professional development programmes or in general educational discourses; others relate identities to other social worlds and teachers’ biographies. I argue that neither pays sufficient attention to identities as they emerge in school and classroom contexts and that supplementary approaches are needed. In this theoretical essay, I present one such approach that defines professional identities as experiences and combines the definition with an interactionist framework, Patterns-of-participation. I argue that this combination allows interpretations of short- and long-term relationships between identities and school and classroom processes.
Author: Jeppe Skott
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4404837279