Abstract |
The object of this study is the professional identities of theater directors. Its
main purpose is to identify the factors that participate in the construction of
professional identities, emphasizing the perspective of the participants
through the investigation of their perceptions of the subject and the process
of this identification of them as theater directors. The process is examined
within its social and political context, leading to the analysis of the artistic
work and the study to the theater as a workplace, which is the natural
environment for the formation of the theater director's identity. The
research consists of three parts. Part I is our theoretical approach,
examining thematic units and keywords that analyze and delimit our topic.
These led us to the formation of both, the criteria and the thematic
categories, we utilized them for the planning and implementation of the
field research, in Part B. In Part 3, the data collected in the field are
analyzed, according to the directions formed by the theoretical approach of
Part 1. To conduct a qualitative in-depth research, 6 interviews were
conducted, with the application of a semi-structured interview guide,
specially designed for this study. The primary data collected were analyzed
using the thematic analysis method. The conclusions highlight the dialectic
between the individual and the collective level in the personal perceptions
and self-definition of the directors of the sample, as an important factor that
dominates their answers. The personal history, expectations and choices of
the participants formed a personalized framework for each of them, which
affects the way in which both their perceptions and their self-definition are
formed at an individual level. However, although individual-level factors are
important, they are not immutable. They are influenced to a great extent,
often to a decisive extent, by the characteristics of the social and especially
the cultural environment, which give a dynamic to the subject's personal
perceptions and self-determination. These characteristics of the framework
refer to the particularities of the artistic work and the conditions prevailing
in the theatrical work environment, its flexible forms being more
representative. The study highlights, essentially, the various aspects of this
dynamic process which, thanks to the dialectic of the individual and the
collective level, forms the professional identity of the theater directors, who
make up our sample
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