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Hutchinson, Anna E. "Perceptions of Teacher Leadership: The Influence of Organizational Structure on the Professional Identity of Urban STEM Teacher Leaders." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1581333163812174.

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Williams-Newball, Takieya Iesha. "Domain, Community and Practice| An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Communities of Practice and Professional Identity Among Veterinarians." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615768.

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<p> This exploratory study examined the relationship between communities of practice and professional identity. The purpose of the study was to quantitatively examine the extent to which there were relationships between Wenger's dimensions of community of practice (domain, community, and practice) and professional identity among veterinarians. This was accomplished by conducting a survey study using correlation analysis. The research question was as follows: To what extent are there relationships between Wenger's dimensions of community of practice (domain, community, and practice) and profes
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Daniels, Ceri. "Surfing the edge of chaos : professional identity constructs of senior children's services leaders in the context of the agency-structure nexus." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/29157/.

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This qualitative study explores and examines how local authority Directors of Children’s Services (DCSs) experience and make sense of their professional identity as senior public leaders. Through extended in-depth interviews with fourteen DCSs from a northern region of the UK, it focuses on perceptions and representations of how they construct, reconstruct and enact their identity in everyday practice and social encounters in a turbulent, complex and often uncertain organisational and policy context. With occupational backgrounds largely in education or social work, DCSs are held ‘professional
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Armstrong, Leah. "Designing a profession : the structure, organisation and identity of the design profession in Britain, 1930-2010." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2014. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/0e7f4dee-3976-4bac-a4a0-6c95b8dc9412.

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Since the establishment of the Society of Industrial Artists (SIA) in 1930, the professional identity of the designer has been a subject of critical debate. This thesis uncovers the histories of this debate, paying particular attention to the structures, organisations and social practices that have governed, represented and given meaning to the identity of the designer in Britain, 1930-2010. Principally informed by close scrutiny of the archive of the Chartered Society of Designers, (CSD), the thesis argues that the design profession is constructed through reflexive social practices, in which
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Robson, James. "Teachers' professional identity in the digital world : a digital ethnography of Religious Education teachers' engagement in online social space." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:622a9d6c-0fbf-4eaa-9882-4189f5e99069.

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This thesis presents an ethnographic investigation of teachers’ peer-to-peer engagement in online social spaces, using the concept of teachers’ professional identity as a framework to shape and focus the study. Using Religious Education (RE) as a strong example of the wider phenomenon of teachers’ online engagement, three online social spaces (the Times Educational Supplement’s RE Forum, the National Association of Teachers of RE Facebook Page, and the Save RE Facebook Group) were investigated as case studies. A year was spent in these spaces with digital ethnographic research taking place sim
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Vaast, Isabelle. "L'universitarisation de la formation de sage-femme et ses conséquences pour les structures de formation : entre dynamique de professionnalisation et remaniements de l'identité des ensignants en maïeutique." Thesis, Lille 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL30043/document.

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Se saisissant du processus de Bologne pour ambitionner une intégration de sa formation à l’Université, la profession de sage-femme espère aujourd’hui une reconnaissance de la part du grand public et des autorités politiques. Cependant, ce processus d’universitarisation met en lumière un contraste entre une situation initialement désirée et une réalité souvent beaucoup moins idéalisée. L’intégration aux Facultés de Médecine et/ou UFR de Santé, confronte désormais les enseignants sages-femmes à une dynamique de professionnalisation, interpelant leur identité professionnelle, tentant de faire ten
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Tjus, Erik, and Alexander Mörk. "Den osynliga muren : En intervjustudie av gränsdragningen mellan redaktion och annonsavdelning i svensk lokalpress." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för konst, kommunikation och lärande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-61234.

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The relationship between editorial and advertising departments in the written press has always been under discussion. There have been incidents, in the past, where advertisers have tried to exert influence over editorial material. In the pursuit of avoiding this, the journalistic professional identity relies heavily on independency. There is something that distinguishes the difference between the department of advertising and the editorial office, a kind of "invisible wall", one might call it. The editorial part of a newspaper work with journalism, while the advertising department is working w
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Establishing Your Professional Identity." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5740.

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Elvey, Rebecca Evanthia. "Professional identity in pharmacy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/professional-identity-in-pharmacy(c60e6184-b3c6-405d-90e2-9858de251450).html.

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This thesis uses the findings from a study of pharmacists and non-pharmacists to explore the concept of professional identity in pharmacy. Pharmacists are well-established as providers of healthcare in hospitals and community pharmacies and their position as dispensers of prescribed medicines, and advisors on medicines in general seem relatively secure, as does their clinical role in hospital and their extended role in community pharmacy. However, previous studies have suggested that there is still ambiguity over the identity of pharmacists. Government policy in particular can be oblique and t
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Khosronejadtoroghi, Maryam. "Implied Identity: Conceptualising professional identity development in higher education." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18840.

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Educators in higher education and professional development are highly concerned with facilitating the development of learners’ professional identities. However, the underlying mechanism of professional-identity development is still an understudied area and requires further conceptualisation. My main aim in this dissertation is to propose a new approach to studying professional-identity formation and its development by looking at the dynamic interplay of self and environment. My thesis argument is that implied identity is a helpful concept to understand this relationship. As individuals re
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Bengtsson, Ida, and Johanna Rosenlind. "Exploring the Professional Identity of Swedish Psychologists – Construction of the Psychologists’ Professional Identity Questionnaire (PPIQ)." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-79319.

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Professional identity has shown to affect the manner in which people conduct themselves at their places of work, how people feel about their work, and how successful they are in their execution of it. Little research has yet been done on the professional identity of psychologists and, as such, this study aimed to construct a measure and explore the dimensions of psychologists’ professional identity. After an online recruitment process, 306 psychologists filled out an online survey and an exploratory factor analysis was employed to examine the data. Seven dimensions were found: 1) Humanistic Va
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Miggou, Olga. "A strategic enquiry into the holistic nature of corporate identity to enable its systematic control." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/7669.

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This is an unconventional study, which addresses the thematic field and the esoteric nature and essence of Corporate Identity. The thesis concentrates in the understanding of Corporate Identity aiming towards an holistic explanation of the concept appropriate for practical multidisciplinary use. It proposes a systematic methodology and establishes a design practitioner perspective, which aims at reliable co-ordination and control of Corporate Identity operations. The methodology to structure the literature A Strategic methodology of questions was developed to operate as a research methodology,
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Ninkhate, Fon. "Professional identity construction amongst Thai pharmacists." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10778/.

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Internationally, the pharmacy profession’s paradigm of practice has been shifting from a product-oriented role to a patient-oriented role. Despite increasing public interest, there has been a lack of research into the experiences of pharmacists as they make the transition to a patient-oriented role. Furthermore, it is important to understand how individual pharmacists construct their identity in making this transition, as well as how they behave or react within the role prescribed by their work contexts. This issue of analysing identity construction at the personal level, especially in profess
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Oliver, Billie. "Connected identities : professional identity in transition." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/11258/.

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This thesis outlines the impact on professional identities of the shift towards 'joined-up working' and the blurring of role distinctions embodied in much current government policy. Set within a context of continuously developing policy concerning the delivery of services to children and young people, and in particular in relation to workforce reform and 'modernisation', this thesis adopts an emergent or Grounded Theory approach to uncovering the experiences of a sample of Connexions Personal Advisers (PA) as they adapted to the change in and challenge to their professional identities. The int
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Mitchell, Thomas. "Identity in elite youth professional football." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4544/.

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The concepts of Athletic Identity (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder,1993) and identity (Erikson, 1950, 1968) both carry notions of having a clear sense of self definition. Applied practitioners in elite professional football settings (e.g. Holt & Dunn, 2004; Harwood, 2008; Nesti & Littlewood, 2010; Nesti, 2013) have championed the notion that individuals who possess a clear sense of self, (generally) cope with the demanding nature of first team football, and the daily challenges that arise from their chosen profession (i.e., injury, de-selection). Conversely, a small number of researchers have con
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Katalinic, Mary Dolores. "Professional Identity Differences in Novice Counselors." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6229.

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Many researchers have found that differences exist in counselors' professional identity (PI) associated with gender, learning opportunities, and specialty area. However, researchers have not focused on the impact of counselors' type of education program (online vs traditional) to PI. The purpose of this study was to address this gap and determine if differences exist in PI across program types for novice counselors. The framework for this study was built around the concept of PI, defined as including knowledge, expertise, professional roles, attitudes, behaviors, and interactions. The research
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Neary, Siobhan. "Constructing professional identity : the role of postgraduate professional development in asserting the identity of the career practitioner." Thesis, University of Derby, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/326291.

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The professional identity of career practitioners in the UK has become increasingly challenged in recent decades due to the influence of government policy and the dominance of work-based qualifications. Privatisation, multi-professional working and workforce realignment have all contributed to a reshaping of the career guidance professional. This research examines the views of a group of practitioners all undertaking continuing professional development (CPD) in the form of a postgraduate award. The participants were all UK based practitioners working in a career related role; all were either c
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Burton, Susan. "Self-perceived professional identity of pharmacy educators." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008352.

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The philosophy of pharmaceutical care, which defines a patient-centred approach to practice, has been embraced and upheld by national and international pharmaceutical organisations for two decades. However, pharmacists have been slow to change their practice and implement a pharmaceutical care approach. It has been suggested that amongst other factors, short-comings in pharmaceutical education have contributed to this reluctance of the profession to transform practice. Efforts to address these short-comings in pharmaceutical education have focused on the curriculum and pedagogic practices, and
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Pratt, Jeanne Marie. "Professional identity in a multi-agency team." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4439/.

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Although multi-agency working isn’t a new concept, the previous Labour government encouraged professionals and services to work collaboratively and in partnership to address issues of social exclusion, poverty and deprivation in order to provide support and interventions to children, young people and their families. As a result, a range of initiatives and programmes under the banner of multi-agency working were developed in health, education and social services aimed at addressing these issues. One such initiative was the development of the multi-agency Behaviour and Education Support Teams (B
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Beauchamp, Bridget Anne. "Imagining coherence : the construction of professional identity." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368191.

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This thesis explores the notion that the construction of coherence in professional identity is an act of imagining. The first stage of the inquiry focused on what it means to be a facilitator in person-centred encounter groups and learning programmes and was conducted through interviews with facilitators. In the second stage another interview study was undertaken, this time with counsellors whose training had been in the person-centred therapeutic tradition. The focus here was on how those interviewed claimed or assembled professional identity. The inquiry was made complex because throughout t
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Talberg, Heather. "Investigating professional identity in undergraduate physiotherapy education." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12016.

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Includes abstract.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Clinical practice remains an integral part of the training of physiotherapy students. It is seen as an effective way of socialising students into the profession. By placing students in a clinical setting where under the guidance of clinicians and clinical educators, they are able to put their classroom taught procedures into practice it is believed that they then start to develop an understanding of what being a physiotherapist entails. Drawing on Lave and Wenger's model of situated learning, this research sets out to understand how
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Lanman, Sarah Ann. "Counselor Educators: Clinical Practice and Professional Identity." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1313686817.

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Peng, Suhao. "Novice Teachers’ Voices on Professional Agency and Professional Identity in Finland and China." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157206.

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Research in novice teachers has been wide and rich because they are experiencing a special period in their career life after spending their childhood in school and freshly graduating from teacher education. At the workplace, novice teachers might be specially treated because they are the newcomers, but they may want to realize some professional ideals. Research in novice teacher’s professional agency and professional identity needs to be enriched. Professional agency can be understood as initiatives taken at the workplace, and professional identity can be a “self” as a professional. Both profe
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Kautzman-East, Melanie A. "The relationship among personality, professional identity, self-efficacy, and professional counselor advocacy actions." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1458984970.

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Quental, Camilla. "Becoming Partner : Gender, Professional Identity and the Glass Ceiling in Professional Services Firms." Thesis, Jouy-en Josas, HEC, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHEC0005.

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Bien que le nombre de femmes, travaillant dans des cabinets de conseil et à des postes à haute responsabilité, ait augmenté, il reste cependant moins élevé que celui des hommes. En effet, la promotion au statut d’associé est le critère utilisé pour marquer la nature et l’existence, au sein des entreprises de services professionnels, de ce qu’on appelle en français le ‘plafond de verre’. De même, devenir associé constitue une des évolutions professionnelles les plus complexes qui soit, le futur associé devant s’inventer une identité professionnelle nouvelle et différente. Dans ce contexte, l’ob
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Subryan, Shubhashnee. "Exploring secondary school science teacher professional identity : can it be influenced and reshaped by experiences of professional development programmes?" Thesis, University of Derby, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621337.

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International test results posed concerns about the future of science education in Canada, the UK, and the USA. Stakeholders such as Let's Talk Science and AMGEN Canada and The Royal Society, UK observed that fewer students were pursuing post-secondary studies and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related fields in their countries, compared to their counterparts in China, India and Singapore. These stakeholders contended that science teachers required the agency to enhance their classroom efficacy and to challenge their students to pursue post-secondary studie
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Finnerty, Karen Christine. "Professional identity and the Irish social care worker." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10922.

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Social care work in Ireland was designated as a regulated profession in 2005, a change in status that led to an increase in the number of unqualified staff registering for degree level professional education. The formation and expression of professional identity among final year in-service social care degree students in the disability sector was explored through a hermeneutic phenomenological approach focused on lived experience, utilising semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. The study found evidence of an emerging professional identity, which could be described from the perspecti
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de, la Campa Ahedo Ana Cristina, and Cordula Schwenke. "Professionalization of Project Management : A Professional Identity Perspective." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-98100.

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McConnellogue, Suet Fan. "Culture and professional identity in global management consulting." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20997.

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This thesis aims to explore the interplay between culture and professional identity in global management consulting with a focus on the power relations and conflicts. A number of research gaps are identified in existing literature from different domains in association with the strategic and structural implications of globalisation for the management consulting field; culture in management consulting; formation of professional identities in management consulting; and identity, capital formation and career in management consulting. Accordingly, four research questions are set for the purpose of
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Osgood, Jayne. "Narratives from the nursery : negotiating a professional identity." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508362.

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In this thesis I argue that the professional identities of nursery workers are politically and socially constructed. The nursery workers' constructions of childhood; motherhood/mothering; policy reform; and professionalism are explored to offer insights into the ways in which various discourses intersect and are drawn upon to privilege particular understandings of the 'early years professional'. Further, through this study I aimed to unearth the ways in which classed, 'raced' and gendered subjectivities intersect with notions of professionalism in nursery work. This thesis is intended to contr
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Aljehani, Khulod. "NOVICE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SAUDI TEACHERS BUILDING PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1777.

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This study is a qualitative examination of the construction of identities of three novice English teachers at one university-level institute in Saudi Arabia. The study uses multiple theoretical frameworks to build a narrative describing construction of these identities: Goffman’s (1959; 1963; 1974) performing, frame analysis, and spoiled identity concepts, Anderson’s (1991) imagined community, Canagarajah’s (1996) “from bottom up” narrative style, Wenger’s (1998) three modes as a framework of the identity construction, and Pinar and Grumet’s (1976) currere. The purpose of this study is twofold
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Tull, Aldon D. "A qualitative study of Barbadian teachers' professional identity." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15026/.

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This study is a qualitative investigation of the professional identity structure of teachers in Barbados, a small post-colonial Caribbean territory. The aim was to determine whether Barbadian teachers regard themselves as professionals and to what extent their occupational/professional identity structure could be described by a pre-conceptualized set of categories. Data was collected from a focus group made up of teachers of both genders from primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in the country. Teachers in the study claim to be professionals despite acknowledging that teach
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Hill, Celeste, Kristie Chandler, and Clara Gerhardt. "Building a Professional Identity: The Role of Conferences." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2018/schedule/16.

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Professional identity is an ongoing process that evolves throughout the undergraduate years of study, and which will hopefully facilitate graduate school and vocational choices that match the student’s skills and sense of vocational calling. Professional Identity (PI), one form of social identity, has been described as the “attitudes, values, knowledge, beliefs, and skills that are shared with others within a professional group” (Adams et al., 2006, p. 56). Understanding the options and opportunities the chosen major may facilitate, allows for a good match between student interests and abiliti
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Jinyan, Hong, and Yu Tingting. "Nursing students’ professional identity : A descriptive literature review." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för vårdvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30242.

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Sharp, Matthew R. "Organizational Identity-Power in Practice: The Rhetorics of University Identity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50977.

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This dissertation explores how various versions of a university\'s identity"including the leadership-sponsored brand as well as alternate rhetorics of organizational identity"shape the policies and practices of the university itself through the lenses of rhetoric and power. While the concept of organizational identity has been studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including marketing, organizational communication, graphic design, and organizational behavior, they all seem to have a common goal: maintaining the status-quo of management\'s control over all perceptions of the organ
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Runcieman, Alan James. "The identity of the professional interpreter : how students construct the identity of the professional interpreter in an Italian higher education institution." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-identity-of-the-professional-interpreter(122d4dc5-281d-42b7-ad10-b5bb5f1cb0e3).html.

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Although professional interpreters are increasingly important in today’s world, helping minority language speakers in other nations in their pursuit of basic human rights, there has not as yet been any substantial empirical research into the institutions that train them. This research therefore aimed to fill this gap by carrying out narrative research, from an ethnographic perspective, to provide emic insights into how students construct the professional interpreter’s identity over the period of their first year in the institution. The research drew on small story narrative research, which ana
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Norman, Patrick. "“Is this actually a good thing?”: Teacher professional identity and professional ethics under neoliberalism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25531.

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This study considers the way teacher professional identity and ethics come into tension with governing policies in education. Informed by institutional ethnography, the research is a case study of a public secondary school in Sydney, Australia. This case study begins from the standpoint of five teachers, mapping outwards through significant policy texts to the ‘ruling relations’ and discourses that articulate a vision of teacher professionalism in New South Wales. A series of classroom observations contrast these governing discourses with the material reality of the classroom. In this way t
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Burns, Beryl Joan. "Striking the professional pose : professional identity in the development and utilisation of information systems." Thesis, University of Salford, 2008. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26601/.

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This thesis explores how professional identity figures in the enactment of IS and focuses on groups of professionals as users and developers of information systems and investigates how they relay their professional knowledge via the system to retain identified aspects, in this case autonomy, of their professional identity. The study looks at how these professional groups of staff control, tailor and maintain important modules within an information system and how this facilitates the appropriation of it into their everyday working practices. It has been argued that the rise of professions in so
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Silverthorne, Jennifer. "An investigation into pharmacist professional formation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-investigation-into-pharmacist-professional-formation(0c919a16-d894-40a7-8568-4f9704c85b3e).html.

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In the professional formation of pharmacists, participation in real-life professional practice occurs mostly in pre-registration training, in the year after completion of the four-year undergraduate MPharm course. As such, development of professional identity and practice are likely to happen predominantly in the pre-registration year. The study is conducted against a background of a sparsity of knowledge about professional formation in pharmacy, particularly in the pre-registration year. The aim of this study is to investigate the professional formation of pharmacy graduates in the pre-regist
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Verling, Rebecca. "Exploring the professional identity of counselling psychologists : a mixed methods study." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/335796.

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Aims and Rationale: The present study aims to enrich understanding of the professional identity of counselling psychology in the UK by exploring both the individual professional identities of counselling psychologists and the broader identity of the profession as a whole. This will elaborate on the existing literature base and allow the researcher to gather a breadth of perspectives of counselling psychology identity whilst also exploring the issues surrounding the identity development of practitioners in greater depth. Method: The study adopts a triangulation mixed methods design to explore t
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De, La Paz Michelle M. "Professional Counselors' Perceptions of Knowledge, Barriers, Support and Action of Professional Advocacy." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1301.

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Leaders in the counseling field are encouraging practitioners to develop a social justice perspective to counseling to ensure fair and equitable treatment of clients and stress the importance of advocating on behalf of these individuals (Lee, 2007; Lee & Waltz, 1998; Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2003; Lewis & Bradley, 2000). The counseling profession, because it is a relatively young field struggling with its own identity (Chi Sigma Iota, 2005; Eriksen, 1999; Gale & Austin, 2003; Myers & Sweeney, 2004) could also benefit from advocacy. A two-pronged approach of professional advocacy, which
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Groen, Cassandra J. "Advancing from Outsider to Insider: A Grounded Theory of Professional Identity Negotiation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77392.

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As evidenced by a large body of research within the engineering education community, those individuals who do not maintain a sense of belonging, identify with engineering groups, or perceive themselves as engineers are more likely to leave the profession. However, little is known about the ways in which engineering students construct or develop their personal and professional identities as influenced by the disciplinary values, behaviors, and practices learned during the undergraduate education experience. In order to deepen the understanding of professional identity formation within the engin
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au, J. Pearce@murdoch edu, and Jane Pearce. "Teacher identity in uinversity classrooms: Reflexivity and professional learning." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060111.123544.

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Many academics become teachers without the help of formal professional learning. This study explores how a small group of academics have done this. The research aims to uncover the informal, experiential means whereby participants have constructed the knowledge about teaching and learning that underpins their pedagogies. The research begins with the assumption that three key elements play a major role in supporting academics’ informal learning about teaching. These are a person’s previous experiences of learning, their experience of being part of a particular academic environment and their
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Sandford, Deborah W. "Construction of Professional Identity in Novice Library Media Specialists." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/109.

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The roles of the person who works in a school library, as well as their title - librarian, teacher-librarian, library teacher, library media specialist, school librarian, library media teacher - have undergone countless revisions since the first official school libraries opened their doors in the early 1900s. Although school library media specialists (LMSs) have struggled to negotiate their identities in public K12 education for decades, this "identity crisis" seems to have reached a critical point due to changes in U.S. learning environments brought about by federal legislation, the implement
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Leigh, J. T. "Constructing professional identity in child protection : a comparative ethnography." Thesis, University of Salford, 2013. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/29567/.

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This doctoral study explores what being a professional in child protection social work actually means to those working within this context. In an attempt to unravel the meaning of professional identity for social workers, I carried out an ethnography ‘at home’. But in order to create that passage of space and time between me and the discourse I currently employed, I also decided to observe the Flemish child protection system. This study has, therefore, a comparative element. My analytic focus has been drawn towards certain cultural factors which impact upon and influence the ways practitioners
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Price, Martin John. "The lamp of sacrifice : professional identity and work culture." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3070.

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Britain has a culture of long working hours, resulting in significant levels of work-related stress. Teachers are arguably the professional group most likely to experience pathological stress and burnout as a result of working long hours. Research in schools suggests that teachers’ work orientations are strongly influenced by factors of personal identity, social background, career stage and personal resilience to stress. In Further Education (FE) research hitherto has emphasised the impact of Government policy and managerial style on teacher behaviour, and notions of teacher professionalism. T
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Davey, Ronys Lee. "Career on the Cusp:The Professional Identity of Teacher Educators." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Literacies and Arts in Education, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4146.

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This thesis aims to take a step or two towards a theoretical model of where teacher education ‘stands’ as a social practice, a career, a discipline, and a profession. It does this through the specific lens of ‘professional identity’, a concept often referred to in the teaching and teacher education literature but one that is also often ill-defined and seldom made the empirical focus of the studies reported. Taking as its starting point a definition of professional identity as ‘the valued professional self’, the thesis recounts the findings of a phenomenological study of the professional self-i
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Gao, YingFei. "Professional identity and disclosure : a study of UK engineers." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2006. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/812/.

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Hodgen, Jeremy. "Teacher identity and professional development in primary school mathematics." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2003. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/teacher-identity-and-professional-development-in-primary-school-mathematics(3727b6d6-726a-4553-95b2-c74e350c4b7f).html.

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Horsburgh, Joanna. "Becoming a medical educator : understanding a complex professional identity." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/becoming-a-medical-educator(2a6eba2a-9ba9-4bbd-9271-615370f8755e).html.

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In the last 10-15 years there has been a significant increase in the number of medical doctors completing Master’s level qualifications in education. This Research Based Thesis (RBT) aims to explore the professional identity development of these individuals who work across the differing communities of practices (Wenger, 1998) of medicine and education. This thesis explores the diverse nature of both the medical and educational practices that these participants engage in and how this impacts on their identities as medical educators. In particular, it aims to explore the similarities and differe
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