Professional Self Research Articles

Motivativational Readiness of Future Officers of Missiles and Artillery Armament as a Factor of Their Professional Development

The article is devoted to the motivational readiness of future officers of missiles and artillery armament as a factor of their professional development. The author noted that the motives occupy an increasingly prominent place in the structure of future missile and artillery armament officers’ professional training for a future military service. These motives are determined in the article as a person’s inner encouragement to activity, connected with meeting certain needs. The benefit of this study is that a group of motives that determine the professional activity of military specialists has been identified. Moreover, the analysis of the motivational sphere gave grounds to identify the needs of the cadets: an attractiveness of the specialty, a physical training, a military honor and dignity, relations with colleagues, obtaining a civilian specialty for budgetary funds, a social status, and an extension of family traditions of military service. The motivational readiness of cadets is characterized by the appropriate orientation and the presence of the content of activities, the professional attitudes of an individual. As a result, the cadets’ motivational readiness is defined as a stable system of the person’s psychological formations that create appropriate states of mind and encourage military experts to work. The author has made a conclusion in the article that the professional training of a future officer of missile and artillery armament should result in the following: the qualitative performance of operational duties; the ability to make interpersonal relations with a personnel; the ability to see the point in a military service, to set goals, and to exert an insistence in reaching them, to rationally share the duties among the military servicemen, to get a job done; the ability to adapt for a change in social environment through general and military education; a desire for continuous self- development; a confidence in personal skills and correctness of the path pursued. The following three levels of motivational readiness of future officers are revealed by the author of the article: high level (characterized by a pronounced need in military professional self- development), average level (distinguished by the motivational and value structure), low level (characterized by a poor value orientation and military service guidance).

Значимость молодежных научных сообществ в профессиональном самоопределении учащихся школ и студентов вузов

Значимость молодежных научных сообществ в профессиональном самоопределении учащихся школ и студентов вузов

The Study of Value-Semantic Orientation Problem in the Context of Professional and Personal Self-Development of Future Teachers

The article presents the empirical research results aimed at determining the level of mastering the abilities to professional and personal self-development of pedagogical specialty students. Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, the concept of "self-development of future teachers" was defined and formulated. The study offers a detailed prognostic model of stimulation of professional and personal self-development of future teachers. Based on system analysis, the authors have defined and presented the structure of stimulation of professional and personal self-development of future teachers. In the proposed structure of stimulation, the authors distinguished motivational, cognitive, and value-semantic components.The study comprehensively examines the value-semantic component as one of the main factors stimulating the professional and personal self-development of pedagogical specialty students. The results of empirical research on stimulation of professional and personal self- development of future teachers are presented using diagnostic methodologies.

How do inpatient psychiatric nurses make sense of and respond to behaviours in dementia? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Objectives: Existing literature demonstrates that nurses’ understanding of behaviours in dementia influences their responses to persons with dementia. However, there is limited research on the psychological processes involved in how nurses make sense of the behaviours and how these impact on responding, and a dearth of such literature from inpatient acute dementia settings. This study explored how inpatient psychiatric nurses make sense of and respond to behaviours in dementia.Method: This study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), a qualitative method that explores in detail how participants make sense of their experiences. Eight inpatient psychiatric nurses were recruited from two inpatient services within a National Health Service Mental Health Trust. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain an in depth understanding of their experience. Transcripts of the interviews were then analysed using IPA.Results: Four interrelated themes were identified: ‘Effort to sense make’, ‘Pressures of the organisation’, ‘Balancing personal and professional selves: The underlying emotional connection’; and ‘”Looking back on it…”’.Conclusions: The study highlighted that sense making is a dynamic process, which occurs through a range of psychological processes and can change moment by moment dependent on the influences on the nurse. It demonstrated that nurses need to be supported to move flexibly through a range of emotional connections, which were found to underlie the negotiations made at work and influence sense making and responding. Nurses may benefit from space to reflect and formulate their understanding of clients, but further research is required to determine the effectiveness of this.

RESPONSIBILITY AS A PERSONAL BASIS OF SELF-MANAGEMENT OF A MODERN STUDENT OF A PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

The requirements for the training of the modern teacher of the New Ukrainian school and the conditions in which it takes place are analyzed. The role of self-management in the process of vocational training of the future teacher of the New Ukrainian school is substantiated. The essence and role of responsibility as a personal characteristic, which determines the performance of educational activity at a higher school, is analyzed, its risks are analyzed in case of inadequate formation.The algorithm of adjustment of the responsibility of the future teacher as the basis of his professional self- management, which concerns the processes of professional forecasting, goal-setting, the formation of life and professional plans in the near and distant future, is proposed. As a means of solving this problem, it is suggested that each student develops a kind of "route map" in the study of a discipline, where the student determines the individual goals of its development and, with the help of a teacher, gives them an estimate when they are achieved. The task of the teacher is to help the student to create such a map, including it in the tasks of independent work, paying the greatest attention to those who are marked by inadequate responsibility and seeking not only positive results in teaching, but also more objective perception of the student himself as a personality, future professional.

Translation and the professional selves of Mercer Cook

AbstractThis article explores the ways in which African American Mercer Cook's translation practice reflects complex overlaps between his professional/personal selves and an ideological backdrop that encompasses black internationalism, US race struggles and mid-twentieth-century diplomatic relations with Africa. A first section explores how Cook, a university professor of French, uses what he terms the “close-to-home” value of translation in order to expose his African American students to what has been written about them in French. At the same time, translation is seen by him as essential to building a “shared elsewhere” where his students can reflect on their place within a black world that is neither nation-bound nor monolingual. A second section examines the way in which Cook's translation practice is inflected by his role as US ambassador in francophone West Africa during the 1960s. In this context, the convergence of US civil rights with official US Cold War policy on postcolonial African states is key to understanding Cook's stance as a translator and the way in which he seeks diplomatically to propel his translations of L.S Senghor's texts towards a racially riven US readership.

Teachers’ professional selves and motivation for continuous professional learning amid education reforms

ABSTRACTPromoting in-service teachers’ continuous professional learning is indispensable to educational reforms that demand knowledge acquisition and practice innovation. Addressing this issue, this mixed-method study examined the relationship between teachers’ professional selves and continuous professional learning. Two hundred and nighty-one practicing teachers completed a questionnaire that assessed their current and future professional selves, learning motives, strategy use, self-efficacy, control beliefs, learning interests and intentions. Cluster analyses found that strongly-committed teachers who held strong professional selves had the most engaged patterns of learning followed by teachers who had moderate and weak levels of professional selves. Study two was a follow-up interview study with eight selected teachers who held contrasting professional selves. Strongly-committed teachers discussed their hoped-for selves while weakly-committed teachers expressed concerns about heavy workload and the selves that they feared. These two groups of interviewees differed in the strategies they employed to complete course assignments.

“Are Mermaids Real?” Rhetorical Discourses and the Science of Merfolk

Preschool education requires articulate, reflective and highly qualified teachers. However, within the teaching profession, it is claimed that preschool teachers have the lowest sense of professional self. Determining the professional status of the preschool teachers is problematic and begins with preschool teacher sense of professionals self. Using a mixed methods research methodology, the study garnered quantitative as well as personal insights into preschool teachers’ sense of professional self. The findings showed that the preschool teachers have an emerging sense of professionalism. The study also highlighted the importance in providing opportunities for collaboration and teamwork practices within supportive learning communities and mentors to support positive outcomes for preschool teachers' professional learning. Teacher education and professional development programmes, together with statutory and professional organisations have to take the lead in bringing the profession forward. Importantly, the sector must continue to develop preschool leaders for knowledge exchange and generation in a landscape that is evolving quickly.

The gaming healthcare practitioner: How practices of datafication and gamification reconfigure care

This article explores how datafication, as an increasing use of quantified performance data (e.g. performance indicators, rating sites), and social media are enacted in everyday healthcare practice. Drawing on the literature about the quantified self, this article shows that datafication evokes practices of gamification: the application of frames of play and rewards to the healthcare setting. We discern three (intermingling) practices of gamification: adapting, ignoring and changing. ‘Adapting’ refers to the incorporation of quantifying features in healthcare, while ‘ignoring’ sheds light on how practitioners seek to circumvent quantifying mechanisms. Change refers to how practitioners actually embrace quantifying mechanisms in order to extend (and improve) their work and to highlight their quantified professional self. We elucidate how datafication of healthcare ‘opens up’ and reconfigures established practices of organizing care and caring – not only for the patient but also to (re)craft the professional clinical identity.

Sexology, Popular Science and Queer History in Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others).

Sexology, Popular Science and Queer History in Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others).

The Professional Identity of Adjunct Faculty: Exploratory Study at a Private University in the UAE

Professional identity has recently made its way as a concept that has become a central theme in teachers’ professionalism. However, adjunct faculty professional identity and development have not been given enough interest in literature despite their increasing contribution in higher education. The purpose of this study was to assess adjuncts’ perceptions of their identity. It also aimed to examine what institutional professional development they receive and the effect of its presence or absence on their professional identity. Four semi-structured interviews were conducted with four adjunct faculty in the Department of Writing Studies at a university in the UAE. Results showed that adjunct faculty have dilemma making sense of their professional selves due to being perceived differently by their students, colleagues, administrators and themselves. Results also showed that adjuncts are vulnerable, insecure, and embarrassed to declare their identity to their students. In addition, findings revealed that they do not get institutional professional development opportunities that they need and that ignoring their professional development threatens the quality of teaching and the reputation of the institution they work in.

PENGARUH KOMPETENSI PROFESIONAL GURU, MOTIVASI KERJA DAN KONSEP DIRI TERHADAP KINERJA GURU DI MADRASAH ALIYAH NEGERI KABUPATEN KAMPAR

Teachers are a very dominant factor and most important in formal education, therefore teachers are often used asrole models and even become self-identification figures for students. The concept of self is an important part inevery conversation about human personality. This study aims to determine the planning and implementationprogram acceleration in madrasah aliyah negeri in Kabupaten Kampar This research method is descriptive methodwith quantitative approach. The unit of analysis in this study is the Influence of professional teacher competence,work motivation and self concept on teacher performance at madrasah aliyah negeri in Kabupaten Kampar. Afterthe data were analyzed, it was concluded: 1) the influence of professional teacher competence, work motivation andself concept on teacher performance In madrasah aliyah negeri in Kabupaten Kampar is with a percentage of63.83% there is a significant influence between the performance of madrasah teachers to guidance paedagogikteacher competence with the effect of 0.489. Based on the above conclusions, it is known that the professionalteacher competence, work motivation and self concept in the learning process determine the professionalism ofteachers in learning can increase and can lift the quality of teachers through the performance of madrasahteachers.

Benefactor or burden: Exploring the professional identity of safety professionals

IntroductionThe professional identity of safety professionals is rife with unresolved contradictions and tensions. Are they advisor or instructor, native or independent, enforcer of rules or facilitator of front-line agency, and ultimately, a benefactor for safety or an organizational burden? Perhaps they believe that they are all of these. This study investigated professional identity through understanding what safety professionals believe about safety, their role within organizations, and their professional selves. Understanding the professional identity of safety professionals provides an important foundation for exploring their professional practice, and by extension, understanding organizational safety more broadly. MethodAn embedded researcher interviewed 13 senior safety professionals within a single large organization. Data were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. The findings were related to a five-element professional identity model consisting of experiences, attributes, motives, beliefs, and values, and revealed deep tensions and contradictions. This research has implications for safety professionals, safety professional associations, safety educators, and organizations.

Discourse and teacher identity in business-like education

A post-structural approach to exploring identity is taken in this paper in that identity is considered here as being socially constructed through discourse, which has deep implications for the shaping of subjectivity and practice. Given both the potential academisation and Anglicisation of Irish schools, and the additional re-drawing of what constitutes as a ‘good teacher’, repositioning Irish teachers’ subjectifications, this paper highlights the important issue of how teachers (re-)construct themselves in particular ways and make sense of their professional selves when their personal values, motivations, principles and deeply held beliefs about education and how it should be experienced are challenged. Ultimately, this paper projects that adopting a business-like ethos in Irish schools will have a negative impact on Irish teachers’ identities.

PRECONDITIONS OF FORMING THE HUMANCONFORMITY ENVIRONMENT OF THE COUNTRYSIDE

The article deals with social restrictions that affect the vital environment of the village in the context of its conformity to the criterion of human dimension, the concept of grasping the agreement between the needs of the person and the conditions of their implementation, which the vital environment provides him. A comparison of the concepts of humanconformity and essential human forces is made. Although the concept has a connotation of the ideal, it must be taken into account in determining the boundaries of well-being and self-realization in local communities. The specifics of the social status of the younger generation are shown in connection with the direction and content of modernization of agricultural production, which does not open an attractive prospect for those who are at the start of professional self- determination. The analysis of the prerequisites for changing unfavorable conditions and the use of the creative potential of the villagers due to the wider use of scientific achievements in the practices of economic organizations is given. At present, there is a gap between the accumulated and realizable potential of agrarian science. The role of restrictions, which in rural realities are closed on the territorial and social space, is understood. The natural and climatic factors play an equally important role in this, as evidenced by the indices of the yield of grain crops in one of the regions of the Volga region. It is shown that the human dimension of the vital environment of a modern village is largely determined by technical and technological factors: on farms of farmers (especially small ones), along with a new one, many machines and trailed implements manufactured during the Soviet era are used. It is shown that at the level of calls there are the low level of material and technical equipment of commodity producers, especially small farmers, the high level of education and qualification is not in demand; the absence of a single consistent concept, which organically combines the large, medium and small forms of economic organization.

How do we describe our professional selves? Investigating collective identity configurations across professions

Understanding how individuals make sense of their professions provides important guidance for career decisions and career counseling. In this paper we aim to further our knowledge of profession-specific self-understandings by investigating collective accounts of what professional members consider to be ‘one of us’. In contrast to objective approaches to job descriptions, our study thus investigates the subjective framings of professional identities. For this purpose, we collected self-descriptions from two different professions: police officers (n = 149) and market researchers (n = 357). Content analysis of the 7545 resulting statements revealed that self-descriptions in both professions relied on only a small number of thematic building blocks for their construction, yet focused on disparate aspects to frame their identities. We refer to these framings as identity configurations, reflecting variations in the relevance given to topics and themes across professional groups. Comparing these collective accounts of identity configurations with existing schemes, we find important additions to current understandings of professional identities by their members. Our findings also reveal the multi-level nature of professional self-descriptions. Our observations offer a new conceptual lens to study professional self-understandings, with practical applications for career counseling and guidance. In addition, our paper contributes to discussions around identity congruence as well as the content and multi-level nature of professional identities.

Professional identity of teacher educators in the digital era in light of demands of pedagogical innovation

The study examines teacher educators' perceptions regarding pedagogical innovation. 27 semi-structured interviews were analyzed using three modes of existence composing their professional identity with regards to pedagogical innovation: being, the conceptual component; doing, the practical component; and having, the environmental support component. Findings show that the "being" component is the dominant mode of existence and is strongly connected to construction of professional selves. Also, demands of the digital era compel teacher educators to re-examine their professional identity vis-à-vis technology-integrated teaching. Institutional support was vital for professional identity construction. Findings assist in understanding professional identity construction of innovative teacher educators.

Communication, collaboration and identity: factor analysis of academics’ perceptions of online networking

Since the advent of online social networking sites, much has been written about their potential for transforming academia, as communication and collaboration underpin many scholarly activities. However, the extent to which these benefits are being realised in practice is unclear. As the uptake of tools by academics continues to grow, there is a question as to whether differences exist in their use and if any patterns or underlying factors are at play. This article presents the results of an online survey addressing this gap. A disciplinary divide was evident in terms of preferred academic social networking platforms, while perceptions about how academics use online networking for different purposes are linked to job position. Exploratory factor analysis identified four components representing different strategies used by academics in their approaches to online networking, including maintaining a personal learning network, promoting the professional self, seeking and promoting publications, and advancing careers. Published : 10 April 2018 Citation : Research in Learning Technology 2018, 26 : 2013 - http://dx.doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v26.2013

The micro-politics of organizational change in professional youth football: towards an understanding of the “professional self”

ABSTRACTOrganizational and managerial change plays a significant role in the employment and working lives of coaches in professional football. However, research that explores how individual coaches experience the change process is limited. The aim of this article is to explore the experiences of Ian (pseudonym), a professional football academy youth coach, during the process of organizational change. Data were collected through field notes, informal observations and meetings, formal academy team meetings, co-worker interviews, and four semi-structured in-depth participant interviews. Findings were analysed through a micro-political framework, with a focus on professional self-understanding. They reveal the importance of micro-political literacy in understanding the impact of organizational change on the participant’s working conditions and continued employment. It is proposed that an understanding of micro-politics, professional self-understanding, and micro-political literacy should be developed in formal coach education programmes to better prepare coaches for the realities of employment in professional football.

Development, delivery and evaluation of a social work elective offered in a hospital setting

Abstract: This paper describes a qualitative study about a Master’s level elective course offered on-site at a Canadian pediatric hospital and delivered by frontline hospital social workers. Ten social workers and four students participated in the study which captured their experiences in the course. A grounded theory approach guided this study. Social workers discussed an enhanced sense of professional self, impact on their daily roles and various opportunities resulting from participation. Students discussed diversity, development of a realistic understanding of the social work role and the unique format of the course. Implications for future course development and university-agency partnerships are discussed.Keywords: social work; education; pediatrics; hospital; teaching