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

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  • © 2015

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  1. Alan Bainbridge

    1. Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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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.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 1-5

  3. Developing an Education Professional Practice: Four Common Experiences

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 6-15

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

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 16-37

  5. Collecting Narratives of a New Education Professional Practice

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 38-48

  6. Stories of Resistance and Challenge: Developing Education Biographies

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 49-55

  7. Being Agents in Education: Case Studies

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 56-73

  8. Bringing the Past into the Present: Formative Interviews

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 74-85

  9. Stories of Hope and Holding

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 86-100

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

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 101-112

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

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 113-123

  12. Reasons to be Cheerful: Embracing Anxiety in Education

    • Alan Bainbridge
    Pages 124-130

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 131-151
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

    Alan Bainbridge

About the author

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.

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