When City Meets Rural: Exploring Pre-Service Teachers' Identity Construction When Teaching in Rural Schools

Autor/inn/en	Ai, Bin; Li, Xueshan; Li, Guofang
Titel	When City Meets Rural: Exploring Pre-Service Teachers' Identity Construction When Teaching in Rural Schools
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 12 (2022) 1, (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ai, Bin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/21582440221079910
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Professional Identity; Rural Schools; Foreign Countries; Teaching Experience; Social Capital; Communities of Practice; Preservice Teacher Education; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Ausland; Sozialkapital; Community; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung
Abstract	Every year, a number of Chinese undergraduates from urban teacher universities are selected as volunteer pre-service teachers to teach in schools located in underdeveloped rural areas. In this qualitative case study, the researchers explore four pre-service teachers' 1-year experience as volunteer educators in rural schools, their communities of practice in the south and west of China, and present their reflections on the challenges, including how their responses (re)shaped their teacher identity. It is found that these pre-service teachers have built their social capital through rural teaching experience, and they have begun to construct their professional teacher identity within that transitional community of teaching practice. The paper contributes to discussions of pre-service teacher education and pre-service teacher identity construction in the context of secondary education in rural China and in other parts of the world. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01