التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Learning to become a teacher with a disability: the personal journey of a professor of teacher education. |
| المؤلفون: |
Martin, Peter Clyde1 (AUTHOR) pmartin@ithaca.edu |
| المصدر: |
International Journal of Inclusive Education. Jan2025, p1-15. 15p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*TEACHER development, *SPECIAL education teachers, *TEACHERS, *IDENTITY (Psychology), *TEACHER educators |
| مستخلص: |
Studies have shown that teachers with disabilities remain largely invisible in schools and in teacher education, thus perpetuating both the lack of role models for students and preservice teachers with disabilities and the prevalent deficit view that individuals with disabilities cannot be successful teachers. Existing narrative research points instead to the advantages teachers with disabilities can bring to the area of inclusive teaching, as well as the professional identity development that this involves. Given this background, the author describes his personal experience with a suddenly occurring permanent visual impairment that altered how he is able to engage in his work as a professor of teacher education. The article uses a narrative research format to discuss the impact of the impairment, the ways in which the author has been able to re-learn how to approach his work and adjust his own sense of professional identity, and how, in effect, he can use his disability as an asset in his teaching, exemplifying trends in the research on the identity development of teachers with disabilities. Possible implications for teacher education are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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