Blurb:

The first part of the book examined theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches, while this second part explores how they are resolved in data-based research. In this chapter, the author explores an approach to sustaining professional agency and self-empowerment in this context of neoliberal reform that builds on the recent focus on language teaching as a matter of the formation, development and deployment of a teacher identity (Morgan 2004; Richards 2006; Tsui 2007; Clarke 2008).