{"pk":2989,"title":"Formation of Professional Identity at the New Silver Street Kindergarten, 1883","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the linguistic strategies utilized by women of the 19th century kindergarten movement in the United States to establish a professional identity within a dominant discourse of separate spheres based on gender. This project takes the form of a case study of the Silver Street Kindergarten in San Francisco and is based on an annual report that records a transitional moment where practitioners took control of the organization by introducing their emerging professional identity to the kindergarten discourse community. Through discourse analysis I demonstrate how the practitioners established themselves and their burgeoning organization, the New Silver Street Kindergarten Society, as a socially and professionally competent member of the discourse community, creating a space “between spheres” wherein they could practice their profession.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Teacher Identity"},{"word":"discourse communities"},{"word":"kindergarten"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59d4g4t6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kathleen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Adams","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Riverside","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2006-06-13T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2006-06-13T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2006-06-14T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2989/galley/1785/download/"}]}