Immigrant teachers face several specific expectations from policy makers, colleagues, as well as the media. Often new hopes are pinned on them for teaching (ethnically) diverse learners. Their professional identity is inevitably linked to these expectations. In this regard, this paper discusses the findings of a qualitative study exploring the professional identities of immigrant teachers. Furthermore, it draws implications for teacher education. Reflecting on our research findings, we illustrate two types of professional identities: Teachers who accept the "special skills" ascribed to them, and where the migration background constitutes the core of their professional identity, as well as others, who reject the expectations, and appeal to the pedagogical skills they share with their colleagues without a migration background. Given our findings, future teachers need more support when it comes to reflecting their own biography, political and public expectations, and the bearings on their professional identity.
Die Beziehung von Lehrperson und Lernenden kennzeichnet eine komplexe Asymmetrie. Sie gilt als konstitutiv für die pädagogische Beziehung, aber auch als von der Lehrkraft zu bearbeitendes Handlungsproblem. Diese rekonstruktive Studie untersucht den habitualisierten Umgang von Lehrkräften mit der Asymmetrie in der Interaktion mit Lernenden. Sie schlägt eine heuristische Konzeption der asymmetrischen Beziehungsstruktur in ihrer Mehrdimensionalität vor und nimmt anhand mittels Dokumentarischer Methode ausgewerteter Gruppendiskussionen die habitualisierten Orientierungen und konjunktiven Erfahrungen von Lehrkräften zur Asymmetriegestaltung in den Blick. Die Ergebnisse werfen weiterführende Fragen zur Auseinandersetzung von Lehrkräften mit der Asymmetrie der pädagogischen Beziehung wie auch metatheoretische Fragen zur Konzeption habitualisierter Orientierungen von Lehrkräften auf.
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