A Short Story Approach to Analyzing Teacher (Imagined) Identities Over Time

07 Jan 2023

A Short Story Approach to Analyzing Teacher (Imagined) Identities Over Time

In this article, the researcher reports on a longitudinal study which
investigated the imagined identities of a preservice English teacher in
New Zealand and compared these with the identities she negotiated
in her teacher education and then teaching practice nearly nine
years later. The teacher, an immigrant from the Pacific Island of
Tonga, imagined herself working amongst members of her immigrant community but ended up teaching English at a privileged high
school. The researcher used a short story analytical approach to analyze her narratives. Short stories are excerpts of data extracted from a
larger set of data such as conversations, interviews, written narratives,
and multimodal digital stories.

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