Abstract
At present, higher education plays a crucial role in the transformation, construction, and development of societies. Spending time on exploring the identity configuration of teachers could generate instruction and guidance processes that should take into account their cognitive representations, discourses, and actions within their teaching practice at a personal level; The objective and intention of this study are to demonstrate how significant events of university professors have over time influenced and determined their professional identity. This research is qualitative as it follows the principles and postulates of grounded theory, which permitted the analysis and description of these events. Data collection was carried out using the SCM (self-confrontation method) through a structured interview applied professors of the faculty of education, science, and technology that voluntarily took part in this research. As part of this research, the past, present, and future of those who took part in it were explored. The speeches of these professors were analyzed under established and emerging categories with the support of the MQDA2018. The results show how significant events and people throughout both their instruction and within their professional practice have been building their identity based on these interactions. In many cases, it revealed how the discourses learned have modified in some way the development and evolution of their teaching practice, as well as within significant events, the instruction processes are unmentioned, which theoretically should help and support this preparation process of the teaching staff.
Highlights
Higher education plays a very important role in the transformation and construction of societies since it generates a greater awareness in new generations regarding the importance it has for the socio-cultural and economic development of their states [24]
Other studies show that a training process based on dramatized critical incidents generates changes in all cases in some of the dimensions of teacher identity
As mentioned by Darling-Hammond [8] this is an important subject within the universities because the challenges that these professionals face daily grow in number and difficulty; educational institutions are obliged to support their teaching staff, and in the case of new professionals, ensure their inclusion and follow-up in an appropriate way
Summary
Higher education plays a very important role in the transformation and construction of societies since it generates a greater awareness in new generations regarding the importance it has for the socio-cultural and economic development of their states [24] From this perspective, teachers are responsible for their students to meet this demand; different works have shown that when teachers experience situations of emotional imbalance of a negative nature, they review and rebuild their own teaching identity, which is constructed throughout their performance [27], [2] causing difficulties in their practice as teachers. As mentioned by Darling-Hammond [8] this is an important subject within the universities because the challenges that these professionals face daily grow in number and difficulty; educational institutions are obliged to support their teaching staff, and in the case of new professionals, ensure their inclusion and follow-up in an appropriate way
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