SAGE Journal Articles

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Journal Article 1: Conway, C., Hansen, E., & Schulta, A. (2004). Becoming a teacher: Stories of the first few years.
Abstract: The need for understanding the issues facing beginning teachers is well documented in the education literature. Within music education, there is also growing interest in the challenges of the first years and the overall life cycle of a music teacher. However, few sources have used the stories of beginning teachers themselves to illustrate the issues. This article presents the stories of four beginning music teachers as a way of illustrating new teacher successes and concerns.

Journal Article 2: Trent, J. (2013). Becoming a teacher educator: The multiple boundary-crossing experiences of beginning teacher educators.
Abstract: This article reports on a qualitative study that investigated the identity construction experiences of one group of beginning English language teacher educators in Hong Kong. Drawing upon a theoretical framework that incorporates both identity- in-practice and identity-in-discourse, and using in-depth interviews, a narrative approach was adopted to examine participants’ identity trajectory as they crossed multiple boundaries from language learners, to language teachers, to language teacher educators. The study suggests that the challenges teacher educators faced at different stages of their professional identity construction reflected the negotiation of past experiences, future ideals, competency, agency, and marginalization. Implications for schoolteachers, teacher educators, and educational authorities, as well as for both future applied research and for understandings of identity, are discussed.