叙事视角下高校外语教师过往情感体验对专业身份认同建构的调节研究

The mediating role of college foreign language teachers’ perezhivanie in their professional identity construction: A narrative case study

情感是人类个体经验的核心,构成教师内心世界的重要维度。情感体验影响教师的自我和专业认知与诠释,调节教师专业身份认同的形成与发展。本研究基于情感体验概念,采用叙事案例的方法探究高校外语教师专业身份建构的展开过程及过往情感体验的调节作用。研究发现:1)教师专业身份认同建构于案例教师个人与社会文化环境的持续互动中,呈历时动态特征,关键事件和人物在其中起重要作用;2)教师过往情感体验综合个人与环境的特征,表现为两者间互动的结果,并以个体能动选择的方式体现其对教师专业身份认同建构的调节作用。本研究结果有助于理解高校外语教师专业发展的社会文化属性,特别是教师情感体验对于其专业身份认同建构的重要性。

Emotions are located in the core of individual human experience, measuring a great dimension of teachers’ inner world. Emotional experience influences teachers’ self-knowledge and professional interpretations and thereby mediate their professional identity formulation and development. Integrating the concept of perezhivanie, this study conducts a narrative case study inquiring into the process of how the participant teachers constructed their professional identity and the mediating role of their perezhivanie in the process. Findings include: 1) the participant teachers’ professional identity are formulated and developed in interactions between the individual and sociocultural environment, demonstrating a dynamic nature in a longitudinal manner;critical events and people play an important role in the interactions;and 2) their perezhivanie represent both individual and sociocultural characteristics, mediating teachers’ professional identity construction in form of individual agentive decision-making. The findings will help understand the sociocultural nature of college foreign language teachers’ professional development, particularly the importance of perezhivanie in their professional identity construction.