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An awfully vibrant account, in accordance with basic lecturers' personal phrases, of what it capacity ''to suppose like a teacher''.

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Well, my degree was in psychology, and everyone expected me to go on with it, I suppose you come to have an image of yourself as something specific. 39 Primary teachers talking Teaching adults means much less role-playing than teaching children. I can’t feel committed to being a primary teacher as long as I can’t feel that I’m myself while I’m doing it. Whatever the motivation of those who were still teaching at the time of their first interviews only fifteen were unequivocally ‘committed’ to teaching in the sense that they accepted ‘teacher’ as part of their selfimage.

Three teachers described how they had embarked on their first posts without any great sense of involvement and had then been ‘motivated by the job into wanting to work hard for something’. One explained, ‘For the first time in my life I was doing something useful . . Now I couldn’t contemplate giving up’. In addition, almost all my interviewees expressed a deep concern for the welfare and interests of children. This they normally described as ‘caring’, though sometimes their emotions were more strongly expressed.

Each of these strategies enabled individuals to maintain situational selves which avoided open conflict with powerful colleagues (including the head) without sacrificing their most treasured ideas, beliefs and 44 Defending the self in teaching ways of behaving. I look first and in most detail at ‘reference groups’ — though, when these were located outside the school, their existence did little to help individuals reduce the tension between their ‘selves’ and their need for social support within the staff group.

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