This study explores how teachers create and perform their professional identities within a resistance culture. It is set in Kosovo and covers the period from 1974 when the province was granted autonomy within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, through to the present day, when Independence has recently been declared. It presents the experiences of a small selection of Kosovo-Albanian teachers who were part of a widespread civil resistance, taking the view that a group's collective history is created by bringing together individual experiences. This study interprets some of these experiences.