ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the doctoral work of the writer and explores the impact of the marketisation of the FE sector on the identities of individual teachers and managers as they seek to formulate and re-formulate their roles against an ever-changing policy backdrop. The chapter outlines some of the key debates surrounding changes in the FE landscape, and uses the visual images produced by the respondents to explore their teacher identities. The metaphors within each image allow the writer to consider some of the key debates surrounding the agency of teachers to enact their own identities and notion of professionalism. The images and narrative of the respondents also reveal the subjugation of some respondents who take on a prescribed sense of identity based on the dominant quasi-market principles imposed on colleges within the sector.
