On Becoming an Education Professional: A Psychosocial Exploration of Developing an Education Professional Practice

This book draws together a variety of detailed case studies to demonstrate the unique interaction between the past and the present which occurs within the professional education context. Using a psychosocial approach, Alan Bainbridge suggests that this process of identity or role formation requires the expectations and fantasies of the past to be negotiated at the unconscious, individual and social level. A focus on personal agency and dealing with the complexity inherent in education settings highlights the macro and micro negotiations new education professionals are required to undertake between the margins of the personal and professional to provide a more nuanced model for early professional development.

Autorentext

Alan Bainbridge is Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and a Chartered Psychologist, Doctor of Clinical Science and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Together with Linden West, Alan has edited Psychoanalysis and Education: Minding a Gap. He is the co-ordinator for the Faculty of Education Auto/biography and Narrative Research Theme Group.

Zusammenfassung
A focus on personal agency and dealing with the complexity inherent in education settings highlights the macro and micro negotiations new education professionals are required to undertake between the margins of the personal and professional to provide a more nuanced model for early professional development.

Inhalt

1. Developing an Education Professional Practice: Four Common Experiences

2. When the Personal Encounters the Professional: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

3. Collecting Narratives of Early Education Professional Practice

4. Stories of Resistance and Challenge: Developing Education Biographies

5. Being Agents in Education: Case Studies

6. Bringing the Past into the Present: Formative Interviews

7. Stories of Hope and Holding

8. Encountering Education at Three Levels: Social, Individual and Unconscious

9. Developing a Professional Identity: Negotiating the Borders of Professional Practice

10. Reasons to be Cheerful: Embracing Anxiety in Education