摘要：Profession, professionalizsation and professional identity are concepts that
have long held the attention of researchers, and more recently erupted in the
education sector. Until now in the province of Québec, it was the teaching
profession that was most often scrutinized. But researchers have started to take
an interest in education managers and management. This article takes a look at
the issue of the professional identity of school board general directors and
their assistants, whose role is recognized as being strategically important to
school administrators.
The article first describes the main conceptual
aspects and parts of a systems analysis model of professional identity; it then
presents the factual data the authors collated from documentary sources about
what director generals and assistant director generals are, what they do, and
how they do it, and finally, in light of the model's characteristic elements,
they attempt to introduce elements of an answer to the question asked above.
