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Korelati profesionalnog identiteta nastavnika
Correlates Of Teachers’ Professional Identity

Author(s): Dušan J. Ranđelović, Predrag Živković
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу

Summary/Abstract: The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that it is reasonable to explore professional identity as an interactive phenomenon because that is the only way a per-son can achieve identification. Contemporary position, role, and function of teachers, as well as the contextual complexity characterized by the surrounding in which teach-ers realize their potential are circumstances and tasks that cannot be achieved without the development of professional identity. Teachers’ professional identity has a holistic and integrative character. It is an inherent quality of pedagogical and professional integrity and ethos. In this paper, the authors define teachers’ professional identity as a relational, insubstantial, and non-subordinate ratio of professional teaching practice (what teachers do) and professional roles and attitudes (what teachers are to themselves and to others).

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 647-666
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian