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Identity as a source of agency for transformative english language teachers

open access: yesEducación y Humanismo, 2022
Objective: This study aims to analyze two teacher-researchers’ stories about their socially enacted identities as a source of agency for transformation to revindicate what language teachers have to say and do about themselves and to position them as ...
Álvaro Quintero-Polo   +2 more
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Education for transformative leadership in Southern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This article argues that education for transformative leadership in a southern African context needs to nurture an understanding of the relationship between spirituality and charisma.
Preece, J., Julia Preece
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Multi-level agency and transformative capacity for environmental risk reduction in the Norwegian salmon farming industry

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics, 2022
This article analyzes the role of agency in reducing environmental risk in the Norwegian salmon farming industry. The theoretical starting point is recent literature on change agency which focuses on the different ways in which actors purposely act to ...
Svein Gunnar Sjøtun   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Covid-19 Learning Crisis as a Challenge and an Opportunity for Schools: An Evidence Review and Conceptual Synthesis of Research-Based Tools for Sustainable Change

open access: yesCenter for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
This paper advances our understanding of how schools can become change agents capable of transforming local practice to address the challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Riikka Hofmann   +7 more
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Radical-Transformative Agency: Continuities and Contrasts With Relational Agency and Implications for Education

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2019
The recent scholarship on agency is mostly centered around a relational (also known as situative, contextual, distributed, and ecological) approach that draws attention to agency being situated in context and contingent on sociocultural interactivities ...
Anna Stetsenko
doaj   +1 more source

Change agency in social innovation: an analysis of activities in social innovation processes

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2023
We examine the role of change agency in social innovations. Agency in social innovations can create new resources and capacities for transformative change in a region.
Samuel Wirth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformative Learning in a Transformed Learning Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Covid-19 presented a number of unforeseen issues for full-time mature students’ transformative learning experiences. The key question being explored in this research is whether mature students achieved transformative learning, given the unanticipated ...
Moran, Carol, Moloney, Andrea
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Universities of the Third Age : a rationale for transformative education in later life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article addresses the political context of third-age learning. It aims to expose how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad combinations and complexities, are manifest in Universities of the Third Age [U3As].
Marvin Formosa, Formosa, Marvin
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Transdisciplinary research as transformative space making for sustainability: enhancing propoor transformative agency in periurban contexts

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2018
In this paper, we discuss how transdisciplinary development research (TDR), if approached in particular ways, can produce new knowledge and also foster deeper systemic changes in the knowledge system itself.
Fiona Marshall   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agency in the Making : Analyzing students’ transformative agency in a school-based makerspace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Despite the potential of digitally enhanced learning environments for supporting twenty-first-century learning and educational change, there is a dearth of research knowledge on students' transformative agency in their use of digital technologies and ...
Kumpulainen, Kristiina, Kajamaa, Anu
core   +1 more source

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