1st Edition
On Becoming a Psychologist Emerging identity in education
Acknowledgements
Series Editor Preface
Part 1: Persons into professions—A unique path into a professional role
Chapter 1. Introduction: Becoming a psychologist—What does that mean?
Chapter 2. Theoretical framework: A socio-cultural approach to professional identity construction
Chapter 3. Introduction to the methodology of the study: Grasping the multilinear and unique developmental process over time
Conclusion to Part 1
Part 2: A psychologist as a sign
Chapter 4. Psychologists emerge everywhere: the academic and non-academic voices in the focus
Chapter 5. A sign of a psychologist as an organizer
Conclusion to Part 2
Part 3: Becoming a psychologist: the multiple life trajectories
Chapter 6. Thirteen pathways to entering the professional role
Introduction
Self-professionalizing cases
Respondent 6a - Vik
Respondent 6b - Snap
Respondent 6c - Uur
Respondent 6d - Mes
Respondent 6e – Hei
Respondent 6f- Ris
Respondent 6g– Aet
Self-personalizing cases
Respondent 6h – Gar
Respondent 6i - Par
Self-maintaining cases
Respondent 6j - Ele
Respondent 6k– Pai
Respondent 6l- Ain
Respondent 6m - Eri
Summary of the general findings
Conclusion
Conclusion to Part 3
Part 4: General Implications: Basic principles of the socio-cultural construction of professional identity
Chapter 7. The construction of professional identity through the lens of cultural psychology
Concluding thoughts: The future in construction
Appendix
Biography
Katrin Kullasepp is Associate Professor of General Psychology at Tallinn University, Estonia.
