E-raamat: Who Am I as a Teacher?: Migrant Teachers' Redefined Professional Identity

This Element redefines transformative learning as a change in the learner's identity, which includes cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions. This Element concerns migrant teachers' transformation, how they redefine their professional identity, and how to support this in teacher education.

Redefined transformative learning refers to learning that implies a change in the learner's identity, which includes cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions and is something all teachers, in this case migrant teachers, experience and negotiate when meeting a new educational context. “Who am I as a teacher in a new country?” migrant teachers ask themselves. To understand oneself as a teacher, one must identify and coordinate the past and present with a future direction, which causes migrant teachers to talk about a transformed professional identity with additional skills. This Element concerns migrant teachers' transformation, how they redefine their professional identity, and how to support this in teacher education.