From Teacher to Educator: Exploring the Role of Agency in the Negotiation of Teacher Identity

The role identity of teachers in the context of education reform has begun to change, and teachers should realize that teaching and educating go hand in hand and play their important role responsibility as soul engineers. However, the role transformation requires strong mobility, and from the present point of view, there are still some realistic dilemmas in the identity transformation of teachers. From the perspective of teachers' identity transformation, this paper discusses the mobility shown by teachers in their daily life and work. It analyses the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting the transformation of teachers' identity, reveals the challenges of teachers in the real dilemmas, and proposes strategies to bring out teachers' activeness.