'That's not treating you as a professional': Teachers constructing complex professional identities through talk

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 79-93

  Cohen, Jennifer L ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Identity talk; Role identity; Secondary school teachers; Teacher characteristics; Urban schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849286270     PISSN: 13540602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13540600801965861     Document Type: Article

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