On Becoming an Education Professional: A Psychosocial Exploration of Developing an Education Professional Practice

Alan Bainbridge is Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and a Chartered Psychologist, Doctor of Clinical Science and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Together with Linden West, Alan has edited Psychoanalysis and Education: Minding a Gap. He is the co-ordinator for the Faculty of Education Auto/biography and Narrative Research Theme Group.

1. Developing an Education Professional Practice: Four Common Experiences 2. When the Personal Encounters the Professional: A Psychoanalytic Perspective 3. Collecting Narratives of Early Education Professional Practice 4. Stories of Resistance and Challenge: Developing Education Biographies 5. Being Agents in Education: Case Studies 6. Bringing the Past into the Present: Formative Interviews 7. Stories of Hope and Holding 8. Encountering Education at Three Levels: Social, Individual and Unconscious 9. Developing a Professional Identity: Negotiating the Borders of Professional Practice 10. Reasons to be Cheerful: Embracing Anxiety in Education