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Curricular Role Identity

What Kind of Science Teacher Will I Be? Teachers’ Curricular Role Identity for Elementary Science

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Studying Science Teacher Identity

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Do you remember playing “school” when you were younger? My mother was a reading teacher, and I (Biggers) vividly remember lining up my dolls in a closet in our home and using my mother’s teacher edition textbook to teach my dolls how to read. I remember the smell of the ink on the paper, the smooth, cold feel of the book cover, and the sound the brand-new, stuck-together, spiral-bound pages made as I flipped them. Playing school with the student text was not enough. I needed the one with the teacher notes in the margins.

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  1. Associate Professor of Science Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln

    Cory T. Forbes

  2. Assistant Professor of Science Education, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania

    Mandy Biggers

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    Lucy Avraamidou

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Forbes, C.T., Biggers, M. (2016). Curricular Role Identity. In: Avraamidou, L. (eds) Studying Science Teacher Identity. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-528-9_7

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