Wondering and wandering: trainee teachers’ conflicting professional identities in the time of COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the professionalization that is part of the professional identity (Perez-Roux, 2016) was thrust into dimensions that required identity adjustments. In this exploratory study, a questionnaire was administered to 321 trainee teachers. Statistical analyses combined with transcripts indicate the pandemic’s effects on professional priorities (resource persons, power relationships between training institutes and professionalization) as well as tensions due to hidden relational identities that complicate the path to professionalization. Perspectives are proposed in terms of university training in contextualization.