Representation of Conflicts over Two Discourses Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Professional Identity in terms of Power Relations

پژوهش نامه مبانی تعلیم و تربیت

Article 6, Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 16, March 2019   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/fedu.v8i2.72713

Authors

Marzieh Kohandel^{* 1}; Morteza Karami²; MohammadReza Ahanchian²; Mahmoud Mermohammadi³

¹Ferdowsi University Mashhad

²Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

³Tarbiat Modarres University

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to represent the controversy over the two professional development discourses and the professional identity of the teacher in terms of power relations. In order to achieve this goal, documentary-analytical research method was used. The findings suggest that the four main controversies with professional disputes, the structure and agency conflict, the conflict of professionality and professionalism, and the conflict of bureaucracy and democracy that have been able to grow in the context of power relations The most important reflection sites are related to the two discourses of professional teacher development and the teacher's professional identity. Considering the fact that the topic of both teacher's discourses is different and depending on the different educational systems and the civil development of societies in some coordinates, including assumptions and notions as to the teacher, there are differences in different societies, this paper has tried After expanding the controversy between the two discourses, which are context-based and affiliated with the power relations, they will promote the development of new perceptions and the establishment of new discourses with more different images of the distribution of power in the Iranian education system.

Keywords

Teacher; discourse; Professional Development; Professional Identity

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