Institutional Reform Paths of Reshaping Teacher Educators'Professional Identity——An Analysis Based on Neo-institutionalism and Embedded Agency
Professional identity is at the core of the professional development of teacher educators,which has a significant impact on teacher education practices.Research on the professional identity of teacher educa-tors in China has mainly focused on the relationship among institutions,identities,and agency.However,existing studies have overlooked the rich forms of agency and underestimated the complexity of identity with in-stitutional changes.This study,by drawing on the concepts of neo-institutionalism and embedded agency,ana-lyzes the situations in which institutional changes could or could not lead to individual identity reconstruction,which demonstrate the complexity of re-orienting the professional identity of teacher educators via institutional changes.The study suggests that future researches focus on the professional identity development of teacher ed-ucators under institutional conditions,especially their agency in the transformation process,and support sys-tems in construction.
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