The review of the literature shows that their own
teaching and learning experiences shape university
professors’ formation of their professional identity.
This paper examines university professors’
professional identity through life history. A
qualitative approach was used, and the methodology
employed was life history to gather events and
happenings in people's lives as their data and then
use analytical procedures to produce explanatory
stories. One case was selected because it is a typical
representative from a class of nursing faculty who
has joined in the last five years at the University of
Southern Mexico. The results were analyzed taking
into account the basis of identity proposed by Burke
and Stets (2009).
