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English Language Preservice Teachers’ Identity Construction Within Academic and Other Communities
La construcción de identidad de los futuros docentes de inglés dentro de las comunidades académicas y otras comunidades
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https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v24n1.93110Keywords:
communities, identity, preservice teacher education, professional identity (en)comunidades, identidad, formación docente inicial, identidad profesional (es)
This article reports on a doctoral research that sought to unveil the identities present in the communities to which four English as a foreign language preservice teachers belong. The study was carried out with a decolonial perspective that included an interepistemic dialogue among narrative inquiry, narrative pedagogy, and the indigenous research paradigm. The main instrument of data collection was autobiographies. The participants and the researcher analysed data jointly. The findings indicate that the preservice teachers’ identity construction is mutable and not essentialised. Mutable as it changes over time and not essentialised since it involves social, cultural, and personal dimensions.
Este artículo reporta una investigación de doctorado que buscaba identificar las identidades presentes en las comunidades a las que pertenece un grupo de futuros docentes de inglés. El estudio tiene una perspectiva descolonial que promueve un diálogo interepistémico entre la indagación narrativa, la pedagogía narrativa y el paradigma de la investigación indígena. El principal instrumento de recopilación de datos fue la autobiografía. Los hallazgos indican que la construcción de la identidad de los futuros docentes de inglés es mutable y no esencializada. Mutable ya que cambia con el tiempo y no esencializada ya que involucra dimensiones sociales, culturales y personales.
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