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Formation Of Professional Identity: Elementary Teachers Who Transition To University-Based Teacher Education, Patricia L. Burgess

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study inquired into the ways university-based teacher educators who taught in elementary grades had come to understand and describe their professional identity within the context of higher education. Additionally, the study explored their personal motives in becoming a teacher educator and the challenges and received support as they transitioned into higher education. Further, it investigated how their previous teaching experiences and identity were relevant to their new roles and identity as university-based teacher educators, and how they have come to understand their beliefs about teaching and learning within the context of higher education.

This study followed a qualitative, …