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Teachers’ professional agency in contradictory times

Teachers and Teaching, 2015
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 development...
Pyhältö Kirsi Maria, Toom Auli, Pyhalto Kirsi   +2 more
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The Multifaceted Nature of Agency and Professional Learning

2017
The present volume has aimed to cover a broad range of approaches to agency at work, exploring its relationship with professional learning and development. Thus, the chapters included in this book have discussed the role of agency in learning and development, considering a variety of working life contexts and applying both conceptual and empirical ...
Susanna Paloniemi, Michael Goller
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Identity and Agency in Professional Learning

2014
This chapter elaborates professional learning from two complementary perspectives, namely professional identity and agency. Starting with the conceptualization of identity and agency, the chapter illustrates how professional identity and agency are intertwined with workplace learning at the individual and social levels.
Eteläpelto Anneli, Vähäsantanen Katja, Hökkä Päivi, Paloniemi Susanna   +3 more
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Agency Practitioners, Pseudo-Professionalization Tactics, and Advertising Professionalism

Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising, 2012
This study investigates, in the context of professionalization theory, advertising agency practitioners' attempts to cope with what they perceive as legitimation problems of advertising work. While practitioners may not think of the sociological concept of professionalization frequently, the in-depth interviews reported in this article uncover agency ...
Gergely Nyilasy, Peggy J. Kreshel, Leonard N. Reid   +2 more
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The Role of Agency in Professional Development

2017
The central aim of this chapter is to provide a theoretical framework that explains how individuals can agentically exert control over their own professional learning and development processes. At a very general level, professional learning and development hereby describes the expansion of those capacities that allow individuals to effectively and ...
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Validating Professional Judgment in a Home Care Agency

Health & Social Work, 1981
In the absence of validate assessment techniques, health care practitioners often make professional judgments regarding their clients' needs for services. This article explores the validity and reliability of those judgments in a home care agency and discusses the implications for decision-making in long-term care.
C D, Austin, F W, Seidl
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Health Professionals’ Roles and Relationships with Other Agencies

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2014
Health professionals play a vital role in addressing elder abuse by identifying and reporting elder abuse and caring for survivors. However, most are unaware of the opportunities to work with allied professionals in elder abuse intervention. This article discusses the various roles of interdisciplinary members and the contribution of health care ...
Mary S, Twomey, Christine, Weber
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Agency at Work, Learning and Professional Development: An Introduction

2017
The concept of agency refers to individuals’ capacity to make choices and to act on these choices to exert control over their lives. Such notions of agency have become increasingly popular within discourses on professional learning and development over the last 10–20 years. Unfortunately, these discourses have been rather abstract in nature.
Michael Goller, Susanna Paloniemi
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Professional Agency and Creativity in Information Technology Work

2017
The meaning of professional agency in the context of professional learning, as well as in the development of working practices and work organisations, is pivotal. The role of creativity is also crucial for long-term economic growth in the current global environment, which is characterised by rapid changes in both technology and economy.
Riivari Elina, Collin Kaija, Lemmetty Soila, Paloniemi Susanna, Auvinen Tommi, Herranen Sanna   +5 more
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Bounded Agency in Professional Lives

2017
This chapter aims to create an interdisciplinary space for the exploration of human agency. Three dimensions associated with structuration, internal-external control and reproduction-transformation are connected in the conceptualisation of bounded agency as a socially embedded, active and potentially transformative process.
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