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Administrative structures of higher education institutions - connection with the experience of professional agency of teaching staff

International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
In educational organizations, the teaching staff has traditionally had a lot of influence on the content of their work and the pedagogy. Within the last two decades, changes in educational organizations can be defined as the shift from this ...
Tanja Hautala, Jaakko Helander, Vesa A. Korhonen   +2 more
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Failure in welfare partnerships – a gender hypothesis: reflections on a serendipity pattern in Local Safeguarding Children Boards [PDF]

, 2018
This article examines the roles that occupational segregation and gender bias in the welfare professions play in persistent failures in inter-agency and inter-professional collaborations.
Dudau, Adina I., McAllister, Laura
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Triggering sustainable professional agency: using change laboratory to tackle unequal access to educational success collectively

Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose This study aims to depict how a change laboratory (CL) promotes sustainable professional practice at the workplace to tackle unequal access to educational success.
Maria Spante, Anita Varga, L. Carlsson
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Teachers' perceived professional space and their agency [PDF]

Teaching and Teacher Education, 2017
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 small-scale study we investigated the way teachers use their professional space in these changing circumstances.
Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma W., Hadar, Linor L., Smith, Kari, Helleve, Ingrid, Ulvik, Marit   +4 more
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Teacher agency and professional learning communities; what can Learning Rounds in Scotland teach us? [PDF]

, 2016
Recently there has been growth in researching teacher agency. Some research has considered the relationship between teacher agency and professional learning. Similarly, there has been growing interest in professional learning communities as resources for
Bowe R., Carey Philpott, Catriona Oates, City E.A., Clandinin D.J., Education Scotland, National CPD Team, Riveros A., Roberts J.E., Scottish Executive, Scottish Executive, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Scottish Government, Walliman N., Watson C.   +16 more
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Beyond ‘witnessing’: children’s experiences of coercive control in domestic violence and abuse [PDF]

, 2015
Children’s experiences and voices are underrepresented in academic literature and professional practice around domestic violence and abuse. The project ‘Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies’ addresses this absence, through direct engagement ...
Bourget D., CAADA, CAADA, Callaghan J. E. M., Cooper J., Hester M., Hill J., Home Office, Jane E. M. Callaghan, Joanne H. Alexander, Johnson M., Judith Sixsmith, Lincoln Y., Lisa Chiara Fellin, Milford R., Mullender A., Peled E, Skansvors L., Slay J., Stark E.   +19 more
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Professional boundaries: crossing a line or entering the shadows? [PDF]

, 2009
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise
A. Tod, Berkman, Boon, Bowman, Castledine, Clark, Dobrowolska, Esterhuizen, Gastmans, Healy, Kirkpatrick, Lord Nelson, M. Cowburn, M. Doel, M. Flynn, Meulenbergs, P. Allmark, P. Conway, P. Nelson, Pattison, Peternelj-Taylor, Phelan, Pope, Reamer, Rossiter, Strom-Gottfried, Strom-Gottfried, Yoder   +27 more
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Success and failure in first-year teaching: Mainland Chinese ESL teachers in Hong Kong schools

Cogent Education, 2018
This is a qualitative longitudinal study of the lived experience of four mainland Chinese ESL teachers engaged in their first year of employment in Hong Kong secondary schools.
Zhengdong Gan
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Storying teacher education policy: Critical counternarratives of curricular, pedagogical, and activist responses to state-mandated teacher performance assessments

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
The rise of high-stakes, standardized, teacher performance assessments (TPAs) is central to the industry being created out of the regulation, policing, and evaluation of university-based teacher education In addition to reinforcing a narrow and counter ...
Nick Henning, Alison G. Dover, Erica K. Dotson, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath   +3 more
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Opting out: professional women develop reflexive agency [PDF]

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 2019
PurposeWhile previous research on opting out has been mainly about women who leave their careers altogether, the purpose of this paper is to follow a broader definition of opting out to investigate the process and experience of women developing agency as they leave masculinist career patterns to adopt alternative career solutions.Design/methodology ...
Biese, Ingrid, Choroszewicz, Marta
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