What is agency? Conceptualizing professional agency at work

A Eteläpelto, K Vähäsantanen, P Hökkä… - Educational research …, 2013 - Elsevier
The concept of agency has become widely used in learning research, especially in studies
addressing professional and workplace learning, but also in policy discussion on how to …

Does student agency benefit student learning? A systematic review of higher education research

MH Stenalt, B Lassesen - Assessment & Evaluation in Higher …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This is a systematic review conducted to explore the primary research literature on student
agency in higher education, as well as links between student agency and student learning …

Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities

K Vähäsantanen - Teaching and teacher education, 2015 - Elsevier
The qualitative meta-study reported here investigated Finnish vocational teachers'
professional agency amid an educational reform. Differences were found in teachers' …

Stress, co** strategies and academic achievement in teacher education students

J Gustems-Carnicer, C Calderón… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
University students experience stress, and how they cope with this stress affects their
academic achievement. This study examined stress in teacher education students and had …

Teacher agency and identity commitment in curricular reform

J Tao, X Gao - Teaching and teacher education, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Develo** teachers as agents of inclusion and social justice

N Pantić, L Florian - Education Inquiry, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Policies around the world increasingly call for teachers to become 'agents of change', often
linked to social justice agendas. However, there is little clarity about the kind of …

[BOOK][B] Language teacher agency

J Tao, XA Gao - 2021 - cambridge.org
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 …

Teachers' professional agency in contradictory times

A Toom, K Pyhältö, FOC Rust - Teachers and Teaching, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Teacher agency is suggested to be a key capability not only for facilitating student learning
but also for continuing professional development, collaborative teacher learning and school …

Teacher agency following the ecological model: How it is achieved and how it could be strengthened by different types of reflection

Ä Leijen, M Pedaste, L Lepp - British Journal of Educational …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Who and how? Preservice teachers as active agents develo** professional identities

M Ruohotie-Lyhty, J Moate - Teaching and teacher education, 2016 - Elsevier
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' …