ABSTRACT
The aspects of teacher educators’ professional identity explored up to this point emphasise, in many ways, the ‘professional’ side of the concept of professional identity – that is, how the teacher educators involved experienced their career shifts from teacher to teacher educator, what they saw as the legitimate scope of a teacher educator’s job description, and what they regarded as their distinctive knowledge and professional expertise as teacher educators. In this chapter, I bring the focus more consciously on the ‘identity’ aspects of professional identity, through a closer investigation of the role that the personal plays within the professional.
