Experience in teachers’ narratives – imperative in forming of mature identity

Abstract

The main goal of my research on self-improvement of teachers based on their professional and connected with their implementation of vocation experiences is to show the complexity and ambiguity of the nature of the teacher in the modern world. The challenge, which I am undertaking, is to develop an appropriate methodology, allowing to catch and describe the influence of life experience on the formation of a mature personal identity among teachers. The presented work is only the seed for „forging” of these ways to approach a particular kind of experience, to which I refer; this situation is obvious in the case studies of each particular existence in the hope of extract specific contents. It turns out that my interlocutors: school teacher, academic teacher and teacher-priest are extremely dedicated to their mission of offering advice and help, and especially appropriate inspiring with their own example. The most important conclusion from my research is ascertainment that every true teacher is at firs an individual entity with their personal history and the experiences what cannot be generalized.