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Opinion on language teacher agency [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Yongli Qin, Yongli Qin, Ping Wang
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The role of beliefs in teacher agency [PDF]
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015 There is an ongoing tension within educational policy worldwide between countries that seek to reduce the opportunities for teachers to exert judgement and control over their own work, and those who seek to promote it. Some see teacher agency as a weakness within the operation of schools and seek to replace it with evidence-based and data-driven ...
Gert Biesta +2 more
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Teacher Agency in Ghanaian Schools: Impact of Career Choice Motivations and Perceptions of the Teaching Profession [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study explored teacher agency and its impact on the motivation and perceptions of the teaching profession. This study employed a cross-sectional survey design, in which questionnaires were administered to a sample of 574 basic school teachers in ...
Francis Adams, Qiong Li, Hu Mu
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The Impact of School Leadership on Inclusive Education Literacy: Examining the Sequential Mediation of Job Stress and Teacher Agency [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesBased on the Job Demands-Resources model theory, this study examines how school leadership affects inclusive education literacy among teachers in regular classrooms, focusing on the mediating roles of job stress and teacher agency. Using validated scales
Yulu Feng, Dan Zhou, Yihong Wei
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Foreign Language Teachers as Agents of Using a Coursebook [PDF]
ARPHA Proceedings, 2021 The article highlights the concept of foreign language teacher agency which can manifest itself in the teachers` decision to introduce changes to the coursebooks they use.
Elena Borzova, Maria Shemanaeva
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A narrative inquiry into the agency of an EFL teacher in Western China
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Despite the increasing interest in teacher agency in the field of language teacher psychology, little attention has been paid to how language teachers enact their agency in an under-resourced environment. To address the research gap, this narrative study
Haibo Gu +4 more
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Understanding Iranian EFL Pre-Service Teachers' Professional Agency: An Ecological Approach [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2023 This study aimed to investigate the sense of professional agency of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pre-service teachers at Farhangian University, Iran.
Saemeh Arabahmadi +3 more
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Cogent Education, 2022 Teacher agency has a powerful influence on teachers’ classroom practices, student learning outcomes, and other professional undertakings. Although teacher agency shaping is a core subject of professional development (PD), most in-service PD initiatives ...
Hussain Ahmad, Sayyed Rashid Shah
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Teacher Agency and Futures Thinking
Education Sciences, 2022 Problems encountered in top-down school reforms have repeatedly highlighted the significance of teachers’ agency in educational change. At the same time, temporality has been identified as a key element in teachers’ agency, with teachers’ beliefs about ...
Jan Varpanen +3 more
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The Teacher and the Curriculum: Exploring Teacher Agency [PDF]
, 2016 A key debate in the curriculum field has centred on the extent to which teachers should or could achieve agency over the curriculum they enact. Threats to teacher agency have come from top-down control of curricula, either through input regulation (prescription of content, methods and/or teaching materials) or output regulation (steering through ...
Priestley, Mark +3 more
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