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' …

Sense‐making, sensemaking and sense making—A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of literature in information science and education: An Annual Review of …

C Urquhart, B Cheuk, L Lam… - Journal of the …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Sense‐making, sensemaking, and sense making are terms used in different disciplines.
Similarities of usage seem unclear.(1) to examine the concepts used in different approaches …

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 …

[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 …

German teachers' digital habitus and their pandemic pedagogy

C Blume - Postdigital Science and Education, 2020 - Springer
After closing public schools in early 2020 to slow the spread of Covid-19, attempts to provide
continuity of education in Germany by means of digital tools faltered in variety of ways, with …

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' …

Struggling for a professional identity: Two newly qualified language teachers' identity narratives during the first years at work

M Ruohotie-Lyhty - Teaching and teacher education, 2013 - Elsevier
Although teachers' first years in the profession are a widely studied field, the factors that
would help to understand the difficulty or the ease with which individuals enter full time …

Teachers' conceptualization and enactment of twenty‐first century competences: exploring dimensions for new curricula

K Van de Oudeweetering, J Voogt - The Curriculum Journal, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the advocated importance of twenty‐first century competences in education, it
appears that they are not systematically integrated in national curricula, school curricula and …

Profiles and change in beginning teachers' professional identity tensions

MT Pillen, PJ Den Brok, D Beijaard - Teaching and teacher Education, 2013 - Elsevier
This study reports on profiles in beginning teachers' professional identity tensions regarding
their changing role from student to teacher, their care for students and their orientations …

Building teacher identity through the process of positioning

M Arvaja - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2016 - Elsevier
This study explores teacher identity work in the context of a one-year programme,
Pedagogical Studies for Adult Educators. The data consist of weekly learning diaries written …