The Development of Professional Identity in Higher Education

In this book, first-hand accounts from academics and practitioners explore the concept of "professional identity development" in the context of higher education and provide guidance to develop and enhance professionalism.

The Development of Professional Identity in Higher Education presents a new understanding of identity development. Highlighting the importance of building positive identities in the development of a professional career, it argues for a reframing of the way academics think of themselves, suggesting the role of "practitioner" as one in which there is a continuous need to develop their professionalism as it connects to their daily practices and different identities. With contributions from a range of international authors, it demonstrates how professional development can change our beliefs and perceptions of the profession itself, whether it be through on-the-job instruction aimed at making teachers/researchers better, or through "self-learning" whereby teachers and researchers learn to develop and enhance their teaching and research competency through daily activities and self-analysis.

This book will be of great interest to researchers and graduate and postgraduate students in teacher education and professional development.

Myint Swe Khine holds a Master's degree from the University of Southern California, USA, and the University of Surrey, UK, as well as a Doctor of Education from Curtin University, Australia. He has worked at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and was a Professor at Emirates College for Advanced Education in the United Arab Emirates. He has edited several books, and the recent volume New Directions in Rhizomatic Learning: From Poststructural Thinking to Nomadic Pedagogy was published by Routledge in 2023.

Abdulghani Muthanna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. With interdisciplinary expertise in the development and reform of comparative and international (teacher) education in international contexts, his research interests include education policy, research ethics and integrity, research supervision, and academic professionalism. He is also the leader of "TEDUPO: Teacher and Educator Professionalism: https://www.ntnu.edu/ilu/tedupo" research group at NTNU.