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"In the middle of a pedagogical triangle" – Native-language support teachers constructing their identity in a new context




List of AuthorsVirta Arja

PublisherPERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Publication year2015

JournalTeaching and Teacher Education

Journal name in sourceTEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION

Journal acronymTATE

Volume number46

Issue numberFebruary

Start page84

End page93

Number of pages10

ISSN0742-051X

eISSN1879-2480

DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2014.11.003


Abstract
The purpose of the article is to analyse how foreign-born teachers who support migrant children's studies experience their work and their position in Finnish schools. This is strongly related to their professional identity. The study is based on interviews with seven teachers from different ethnic groups. The informants expressed commitment to their work and the students but felt that they were marginalised in the schools as a new professional group. They wanted to stress their role as teachers, although they also viewed themselves as mediators between the school and the migrant families. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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