Teacher Identity and Academic Requirements: Agreements and Disagreements with the Social Reality

Abstract

The profound changes experienced by society, characterized by the search for new paradigms that will safeguard the international higher education, hint at the possibility that teacher identity is in severe crisis. Faced with little true scenarios, so there is a recurring disagreement between the teacher’s disciplinary professional identity and its role as an educator, a condition that is exacerbated by the requirement that is imposed institutionally to do research as if these two exercises professionals communicate could be solved only with their disciplinary training. Given this, it is necessary to make an approach to the possible causes that determine this condition, to delimit the degree of responsibility to each player, and especially the teacher, was concerned.