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Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach [Pehme köide]

(Aarhus University, Denmark), (University of Stirling, UK), (Maynooth University, Ireland)
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  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2016
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1474297366
  • ISBN-13: 9781474297363
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 200 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 232x154x12 mm, kaal: 317 g
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  • ISBN-10: 1474297366
  • ISBN-13: 9781474297363
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Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional development of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on the issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson explore empirical findings from the 'Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project, funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Drawing together this research with the authors' international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency addresses theoretical and practical issues of international significance. The authors illustrate how teacher agency should be understood not only in terms of individual capacity for teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.

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Agentic learners need agentic teachers who can respond, stimulate and challenge. This thoughtful book helps you see why and what can be done to get there. It is a compelling read with messages for everyone working in education. * Anne Edwards, Professor Emerita, University of Oxford, UK * This book significantly contributes to our understanding of teachers professional agency. The authors draw together different lines to explore what teacher agency entails, including exploring data from their own empirical research on teachers in the context of a large-scale educational reform. Their conceptualization of teacher agency is an interactive one with relevant implications for the whole educational system and on all its levels. Teacher Agency is a book that should be read by all who wish teachers to be active and engaged participants in such a system and, through that, can really make the difference. * Douwe Beijaard, Professor of Professional Learning and Dean of the Eindhoven School of Education (ESoE) of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands *

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Illuminates the ecological conditions under which teachers can achieve agency and highlight the implications for practice, policy and research.
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change 1(18)
Introduction
1(2)
Focusing on the teacher: What this book is not about
3(3)
Scotland's `Curriculum for Excellence'
6(5)
Curricular structure
8(1)
Learning
9(2)
The role of teachers
11(1)
The `Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project
11(6)
The schools
13(1)
The teachers
14(3)
A preview of the chapters: What this book is about
17(2)
1 Understanding Teacher Agency
19(18)
Introduction
19(1)
Conceptualizing agency
20(3)
Theorizing agency: An ecological approach
23(3)
Understanding teacher agency
26(5)
A framework for understanding teacher agency
29(2)
The iterational, practical--evaluative and projective aspects of teachers' work
31(3)
The iterational dimension of teachers' work
31(1)
The projective dimension of teachers' work
32(1)
The practical--evaluative dimension of teachers' work
33(1)
Concluding comments
34(3)
2 Teacher Beliefs and Aspirations
37(22)
Introduction
37(2)
Teacher beliefs: An overview of the literature
39(5)
Denning teacher beliefs
40(1)
Categorizing teacher beliefs
41(1)
Beliefs and context
42(1)
The formation of teacher beliefs
43(1)
Exploring teacher beliefs
44(10)
Beliefs relating to children and young people
45(3)
Beliefs about the role of the teacher
48(2)
Beliefs about educational purpose
50(4)
Discussion and conclusions
54(5)
3 Teacher Vocabularies and Discourses
59(26)
Introduction
59(3)
Talking about education (1)
62(8)
Talking about education (2)
70(13)
Discussion and conclusions
83(2)
4 The Importance of Relationships
85(20)
Introduction
85(2)
Teacher professional networks
87(5)
Relationships and teacher agency
92(10)
Commonalities
93(3)
Hillview High School
96(3)
Lakeside High School
99(3)
Conclusions
102(3)
5 Performativity and Teacher Agency
105(22)
Introduction
105(2)
Performativity, professionalism and agency
107(4)
Performativity in Scotland
111(2)
Performativity and teacher agency
113(11)
Performativity in a primary school
114(6)
Performativity in two secondary schools
120(4)
Conclusions
124(3)
6 Individual, Cultural and Structural Framings of Agency
127(38)
Introduction
127(2)
What have we found?
129(7)
Fostering teacher agency
136(11)
The problematic policy focus on the capacity of the individual teacher
137(4)
Individual, cultural and structural dimensions of teacher agency
141(6)
What does teacher agency make possible? Or why teacher agency is needed!
147(4)
Conclusions: Fostering Teacher Agency
151(14)
Introduction
151(2)
Macro-level policy
153(4)
Meso-level curriculum development
157(5)
Micro-level curriculum enactment
162(2)
Conclusions
164(1)
Notes 165(4)
References 169(14)
Index 183
Mark Priestley is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Stirling, UK. He is an elected member of the Council of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), and Co-Convenor of the European Educational Research Association Curriculum Development Network.

Gert Biesta is Emeritus Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at the Maynooth University, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.

Sarah Robinson is Associate Professor at the Centre for Teaching Development and Digital Media in the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University, Denmark.