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Abstract
In this article, we focus on developing a clearer conceptualization of teacher identity. We provide an inclusive definition that integrates three key dimensions of the construct that have been previously underexamined: (1) Teacher identity as part of ongoing, goal-focused, agentic regulating processes, (2) Teacher identity as part of multiple intersecting identities within social-cultural-historical contexts, and (3) Teacher identity negotiated within professional experiences including professional community standards. By foregrounding and integrating these three dimensions that have been underexamined in existing approaches of teacher identity, we aim to provide conceptual clarity, which will allow educational psychologists to better explain the role teacher identity plays in the work and lives of teachers.
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Notes
1 Occupational identity has also been called vocational, career, or professional identity.
2 We use the term “transact” or “transaction” in line with Rosenblatt’s (Citation1978, Citation1985) definitional argument that the human being and environments are not separate entities interacting upon each other, but they are engaged in the meaningful and reciprocal actions that result in mutual change.
3 We use the word practice to include the decision-making and/or the outcome of the decision-making which is a teaching-related action.
4 The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) are two organizations that develop standards that guide teaching and learning of mathematics.
5 At the time this manuscript was being developed, the United States was experiencing the lingering effects of what is referred to as the double pandemic, that is the racial unrest following the murder of George Floyd and others, COVID pandemic, and the emerging state restrictions on teaching African American History and issues with the LGBTQ + communities.