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Proactive Images for Pre-Service Teachers

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This chapter highlights the constructed nature of teachers’ identities and the ways that confrontations with the unexpected can be a catalyst for personal and professional growth. Building on the well-established theories of identity negotiation, critical incidents, and transformational learning, and backed up by a wealth of empirical research, this chapter ends with reflective support for both pre-service teachers and teacher preparation programs to use as they engage in the perpetual process of becoming.

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Delamarter, J. (2019). Becoming Something New. In: Proactive Images for Pre-Service Teachers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13491-4_7

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