Intersecting Professional Identities and Social Interaction

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dc.contributor.authorSwartz, Micah
dc.contributor.authorOlarte, Royce
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-22T17:25:31Z
dc.date.available2022-04-22T17:25:31Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.description.abstractThis study examined how the social interactions that mathematics teaching assistants (TAs) have within their institution influenced their professional identity development as early-career undergraduate instructors. We drew on a sociocultural perspective of professional identity development in higher education to examine TAs’ interactions with students, faculty, and other TAs. We qualitatively analyzed five mathematics TAs’ responses to semi-structured interviews and developed codes to describe the complexity and multidimensionality of their professional identities. We found that some dimensions of TAs' identities were more frequently situated within specific relationships, while others were evident in multiple relationships. Overall, the social interactions of TAs were sites for professional identity development. Identity is a complex construct, and a better understanding of how professional identity is developed can inform higher education institutions on ways to support positive identity development of future mathematics instructors.
dc.description.departmentMathematics
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dc.identifier.citationSwartz, M., & Olarte, R. (2022). Intersecting professional identities and social interaction. Poster presented at the International Research Conference for Graduate Students, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/15689
dc.language.isoen
dc.sourceGraduate Student Research Conference, 2022, San Marcos, Texas, United States.
dc.subjectmathematics
dc.subjectprofessional identity
dc.subjectteaching assistants
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.titleIntersecting Professional Identities and Social Interaction
dc.typePoster

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