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 study explores how teachers enact agency to facilitate their professional development
during curricular reform at a Chinese university. An analysis of data derived from life history …

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 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 …

I am delighted to be able to prepare the second book on language teacher cognition, which
is a fast-growing field with diverse interests from different contexts and perspectives. My first …

This study investigated teacher educators' collective professional agency and identity within
an identity coaching programme. The participants in the programme were teacher educators …

Agency is emerging as a key concept, as part of increased debates about rigid
accountability in measures of teacher effectiveness. However, the construct is elusive …

The delicate balance between teaching and research in university makes professional
agency an imperative topic to be studied in teacher development research. The importance …

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 …

Purpose This study aims to explore the construct of teacher resilience. Researchers
examined the relationship among complex risk (constraining) factors leading to burnout and …