The processes of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of an IFSC English language teacher’s professional identity

Abstract

This article presents a qualitative study which aimed at investigating the process of identity construction of Silvana, an English language teacher from the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC). In order to do so, data were generated from class observations, fi eld notes and an interview and analysis consisted in a long and careful process of refl ection, subjective interpretation and construction of meanings from the data generated in interaction with the theories that support this study. Regarding the latter, we have drawn mainly on the contributions of Wenger (1998), Connelly & Clandinin (1999) and Gee (2000Gee ( -2001