Identity and Teacher Professional Development - A Reflective, Collaborative and Agentive Learning Journey

This book addressed teachers'' necessity to be able to respond to the new needs and demands caused by an ever-evolving educational system, as recognized in the national and international policy and research literature. The book proposes an analysis of the features that shape the journey of the teacher profession and professionalism, a journey which needs to be collaborative, agentive and dialogical:

-             Collaborative in changing the personal and professional teacher development from an individual and solitude process toward a joint discovery with mutual enrichment and shared directionality;

-             Agentive in the ability to activate internal and external resources for an individual, productive and communicative transformation;

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