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Professional Capital Across The Careers Of Four Veteran Teachers, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski
Professional Capital Across The Careers Of Four Veteran Teachers, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
This qualitative study investigated veteran teachers’ professional experiences over 3 decades of their teaching careers. Drawing from professional capital theory (Hargreaves & Fullan, 2012), I present 4 veteran elementary public-school teachers’ experiences and development of their professional capital over nearly 3 decades of their careers. I examined 3 dimensions of the professional lives of teachers: (1) the ways in which they developed their teaching expertise; (2) the kinds of decision-making possibilities they experienced; and (3) the kinds of interactions and relationships that were fostered in their professional communities. The research question that shaped my study was: In what ways do …