Exploring Language Teacher Identity Work as Ethical Self‐Formation

In this article, we treat language teacher identity as foundational to educational practice and see Foucault's ( , ) notion of ethical self‐formation, and its adoption in teacher education research by Clarke ( , , ), as providing a potential vehicle for understanding the development of teacher agency and critical identity work. We use the 4 axes of Foucault's ( ) approach to ethical self‐formation, as captured in Clarke's ( ) “Diagram for Doing...