摘要：This paper examines how teachers´ professional identity and work roles are related to information seeking. Information seeking was explored by focusing on the ways in which teachers meet the needs brought by the future work tasks. Teachers’ work roles were examined by drawing on Leckie’s, Pettigrew’s and Sylvain’s general model of information seeking. The use of information sources were analyzed by means of information horizon maps. Twenty teachers were interviewed in 2003-2004 in Vocational Education Centre in Jämsä region. The study showed that the teachers´ work roles have been changed and that there are new work-task related information needs. Information seeking, lifelong learning, and self development provided the major ways to cope with the changes of work tasks. Adopting a new teachership, keeping current and fostering professional growth and collaboration strengthened the professional identity. In turn, the strong professional identity increased the teachers´ possibilities to cope with the continuous change.
