Teacher agency (TA) has been increasingly supported as an influential factor for teacher
professional learning, school improvement and sustainable educational change. Previous …

This Element aims to elucidate the concept of language teacher agency by exploring
the'what'question, offering major conceptualisations of agency and explaining how they …

This article draws on the ecological model of teacher agency and elaborates on how teacher
agency is achieved, its components and how it could be strengthened. This model highlights …

This study is part of an ongoing action research project with preservice class teachers in
Finland. The study aims to better understand the forms agency takes in preservice teachers' …

This article examines the agency of four language teachers, and the affordances and
constraints in their achievement of agency, as their routines were disrupted by the sudden …

Teachers' capacity to learn intentionally and responsively in the classroom is particularly
vulnerable during the first years in the profession. This study investigated the interrelations …

Teaching is both personal and professional. Who one is as a person is strongly interwoven
with how one works as a professional. Both dimensions together represent one's teacher …

In order to increase student performance, governments stress the importance of
standardization for teaching which is seen as a threat to teachers' professionalism. In this …

This study aims to outline different nuances of professional agency manifested among
student teachers when research skills studies and teaching practice are integrated, and …

This paper presents a case study of teacher agency for social justice in a primary school in
Scotland. Mixed methods and tools, including a questionnaire, interviews and observations …