Teachers' Professional Identities
Teachers’ professional identity has become a prominent field of research over the last two decades, both in mathematics education and in other educational disciplines. However, the field is still searching for common ground and many issues are unresolved, for instance those pertaining to the theoretical and methodological challenges involved.
The ambition of the conference is to take the discussions of these challenges further and to discuss exciting new empirical findings. We expect to address questions of for instance what different understandings of identity and different methodological approaches have to offer in terms of how professional identities change at different stages of a teaching career; what the reciprocal relationships are between teachers’ identities and school and classroom practices; and how identities relate social and societal constellations beyond the immediate situation.
We invite colleagues in mathematics education and related fields to submit abstracts on these and other issues related to teachers’ professional identities.
We are happy that Einat Heyd-Metzuaynim (Technion, Haifa, Israel) and Sonja Lutovac (University of Oulo, Finland) have accepted our invitations to present at the conference. Both have made very important contributions to identity research in mathematics education.