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- PaperTESOL Quarterly12 Jul 2026
Language Teacher Educator Identity, Wellbeing and Agency Nested in a Community of Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography
Yasemin Tezgiden‐Cakcak, Aycan Demir‐Ayaz, Işıl Günseli Kaçar
Three language teacher educators in Türkiye used collaborative autoethnography to examine how their community of practice (CoP) helped them navigate identity tensions, boost wellbeing, and enact agency. The CoP provided a collegial space that supported professional empowerment and resilience within neoliberal academia. Findings reconceptualize identity, wellbeing, and agency as interdependent processes nested in a CoP.
Original abstract
In this collaborative autoethnography, we, as three university‐based language teacher educators in Türkiye, explore how our community of practice (CoP) acted as a catalyst in navigating our identity tensions, boosting our wellbeing and contributing to our agency. Grounded in Wenger's (2009) framework of CoP, we embarked on a critical journey of navigating the tensions between our aspired and assigned identities as teacher educators in a dialogic and reflective third space of a CoP. The collegial space of our CoP enabled us to enact our agency and nurtured our wellbeing, embracing us in a safety net of solidarity and empowering us professionally in neoliberal academia. Conceptualizing the identity–wellbeing–agency triangle as a mutual, recursive and interdependent process nested in a CoP, this study showcases how LTEs reclaim their legitimacy, nourish their wellbeing and enact their agency in a safe dialogic space. Such a reconceptualization may bring new insights to LTEs in different contexts.
- PaperELT Journal4 Jun 2026
Teacher Burnout from a Complex Systems Perspective Carol Griffiths (ed.)
Barbara Roosken
This edited volume explores teacher burnout through the lens of complex systems theory, offering a nuanced understanding of the interconnected factors contributing to educator stress and attrition.
- NewsOxford University Press ELT Blog9 Apr 2025
Stress Management Skills For Educators
Teaching involves far more than lesson planning and delivery, requiring educators to balance multiple responsibilities and manage unexpected challenges, often prioritizing others' needs. The article emphasizes the importance of developing stress management skills for teacher well-being and effectiveness.
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When you first start teaching, you imagine that the hardest part of the role would be the planning and delivery of lessons. However, you probably quickly realise that teaching is so much more than that. It’s about balancing responsibilities, managing unexpected challenges and often putting others’ needs before your own. You take on the role […] The post Stress Management Skills For Educators appeared first on Teaching English with Oxford .