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Toom, Auli, Kirsi Pyhältö, Janne Pietarinen, and Tiina Soini. "Professional Agency for Learning as a Key for Developing Teachers’ Competencies?" Education Sciences 11, no. 7 (June 29, 2021): 324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11070324.

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Teacher’s professional competencies have been discussed extensively in the literature, often linked to educational policy discourses, teaching standards, student learning outcomes, or the intended outcomes of teacher education. Extensive, but fragmented and loosely theoretically or empirically based lists of teacher competencies are provided without much clarification of how, when, and why teachers learn and identify the competencies they need. Teacher competencies and how they are related to the core of their work as thinking practice have been discussed extensively by a range of stakeholders. However, what is actually needed in order to attain such competencies has been less studied. This paper contributes to the gap in the literature on active and intentional learning of teacher competencies by elaborating the relationship between teacher competencies and professional agency for learning. Through this, our aim in this article is to provide a better understanding of the topic, both theoretically and empirically. Drawing on earlier research, we have elaborated on the relationships between a teacher’s professional competencies and agency for learning among pre- and in-service teachers. We also aim to answer the question: what characteristics of teacher education lead to student teachers becoming competent and agentic? Why should we focus on those features during pre-service teacher education and as part of a teacher’s career?

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Schut, Suzanne, Jan van Tartwijk, Erik Driessen, Cees van der Vleuten, and Sylvia Heeneman. "Understanding the influence of teacher–learner relationships on learners’ assessment perception." Advances in Health Sciences Education 25, no. 2 (October 29, 2019): 441–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10459-019-09935-z.

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Abstract Low-stakes assessments are theorised to stimulate and support self-regulated learning. They are feedback-, not decision-oriented, and should hold little consequences to a learner based on their performance. The use of low-stakes assessment as a learning opportunity requires an environment in which continuous improvement is encouraged. This may be hindered by learners’ perceptions of assessment as high-stakes. Teachers play a key role in learners’ assessment perceptions. By investigating assessment perceptions through an interpersonal theory-based perspective of teacher–learner relationships, we aim to better understand the mechanisms explaining the relationship between assessment and learning within medical education. First, twenty-six purposefully selected learners, ranging from undergraduates to postgraduates in five different settings of programmatic assessment, were interviewed about their assessment task perception. Next, we conducted a focussed analysis using sensitising concepts from interpersonal theory to elucidate the influence of the teacher–learner relationship on learners’ assessment perceptions. The study showed a strong relation between learners’ perceptions of the teacher–learner relationship and their assessment task perception. Two important sources for the perception of teachers’ agency emerged from the data: positional agency and expert agency. Together with teacher’s communion level, both types of teachers’ agency are important for understanding learners’ assessment perceptions. High levels of teacher communion had a positive impact on the perception of assessment for learning, in particular in relations in which teachers’ agency was less dominantly exercised. When teachers exercised these sources of agency dominantly, learners felt inferior to their teachers, which could hinder the learning opportunity. To utilise the learning potential of low-stakes assessment, teachers are required to stimulate learner agency in safe and trusting assessment relationships, while carefully considering the influence of their own agency on learners’ assessment perceptions. Interpersonal theory offers a useful lens for understanding assessment relationships. The Interpersonal Circumplex provides opportunities for faculty development that help teachers develop positive and productive relationships with learners in which the potential of low-stakes assessments for self-regulated learning is realised.

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Cheng, Ching-Ching, and Kuo-Hung Huang. "EDUCATION REFORM AND TEACHER AGENCY." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 76, no. 3 (June 15, 2018): 286–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/18.76.286.

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The rapid change of technology, society, and economy creates pressure for education reform on a national level. In respond to the demand for quality improvement, educational organizations are engaging in educational innovation including curriculum, teacher competency, and effective teaching. Nevertheless, this top-down approach for change is likely to fail and lead to an unintended consequence if teachers are antithetical to the reform policy. As institutional agents, teachers make instructional choices to shape implementation of reform and thus influence the educational change in institutionalized practices (Bridwell-Mitchell, 2015). Briggs, Russel, and Wanless (2018) point out that teacher buy-in is a critical factor in educational change. As “an alignment between teacher beliefs and the goals of a change or reform, as well as feelings of competence in implementation” (p. 126), teacher buy-in for reform plays a crucial role in times of change. Teachers’ receptivity to reform is closely related to how they perceive the policy-level change. In addition to meeting the external demands, teachers characterized as real change agents are willing to change from the internal drive to reflect and learn (van der Heijden, Geldens, Beijaard, & Popeijus, 2015).

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Goodwyn, Andrew Cecil. "Adaptive agency." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 18, no. 2 (June 3, 2019): 153–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0030.

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Purpose This paper aims to introduce the concept of adaptive agency and illustrate its emergence in the field of English teaching in a number of countries using England over the past 30 years as a case study. It examines how the exceptional flexibility of English as school subject has brought many external impositions whilst its teachers have evolved remarkable adaptivity. Design/methodology/approach It proposes several models of agency and their different modes, focussing finally on adaptive agency as a model that has emerged over a 30-year period. It considers aspects of this development across a number of countries, mostly English speaking ones, but its chief case is that of England. It is principally a theoretical paper drawing on Phenomenology, Critical Realism and later modernist interpretations of Darwinian Theory, but it is grounded by drawing on two recent empirical projects to illustrate English teachers’ current agency. It offers a fresh overview of how agency and accountability have interacted within a matrix of official policy and constraint. Findings Adaptive agency has become a necessary aspect of teacher expertise. Such a mode of working creates great emotional strains and tensions, leading to many teachers leaving the profession. However, many English teachers whilst feeling controlled in the matrix of power and the panopticon of surveillance, remain resilient and positive about the future of the subject. Research limitations/implications This is to some extent a personal and reflexive account of a lived history, supported by research and other evidence. Practical implications Adaptive agency enables teachers to conceptualise the frustrations of the role but to celebrate how they expertly use their agency where they can. It makes their work and struggle more comprehensible. In providing the concept of harmonious practice, it offers the hope of a return to more satisfying professional lives. Originality/value This paper offers an original concept, adaptive agency, and discusses other valuable conceptualisations of agency and accountability. It combines a unique individual perspective with a fresh overview of the past three decades as experienced by English teachers in England.

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Bao, Min, Wei Ren, and Danping Wang. "Understanding the Professional Practice of Teachers of Chinese as an Additional Language through the Lens of Teacher Agency." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 11, 2020): 7493. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187493.

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Teacher agency plays a key role in sustaining the professional practice of language teachers, including teachers of Chinese as an additional language (CAL), to ensure sustainable multilingualism in universities. This paper reports on an exploratory study that examined five CAL teachers’ experiences of using teaching materials in a leading Belarussian university. Drawing on theorization about teacher agency, the analysis of the participants’ experiences helped to reveal the manifestations of teacher agency in their engagement with teaching materials in their teaching, which emerged from interactions between individual aspirations and contextual conditions. In particular, the findings highlight that three factors, namely teachers’ beliefs, teacher identity, and relationships within their community, play significant roles in mediating the participants’ exercise of agency in using teaching materials. The findings not only contribute to the conceptualization of teacher agency, but suggest that pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and materials development of CAL teachers should be emphasized in supporting effective teaching, so that they can achieve sustainable professional practice to ensure sustainable multilingualism in universities.

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Phelan, Anne M., and Dion Rüsselbaek Hansen. "RECLAIMING AGENCY AND APPRECIATING LIMITS IN TEACHER EDUCATION: EXISTENTIAL, ETHICAL, AND PSYCHOANALYTICAL READINGS." Articles 53, no. 1 (February 19, 2019): 128–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1056286ar.

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A basic premise of teacher education is the value of teacher agency, that is, the teacher’s capacity to take responsibility for one’s knowledge, beliefs, judgements, and relationships. How can teacher educators sustain a commitment to agency in light of critiques of western modernity, specifically in relation to the existence of a rational autonomous subject, the erasure of history, and the opacity of language? Drawing on existentialism, ethics, and psychoanalysis, we discuss three practicum vignettes to illustrate what we are calling “the chiastic complexity” of agency within the field of teacher education. We argue that admission of the limits of teacher agency may be the source of ethical insight, educational opportunity, and political resistance for student teachers and teacher educators.

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Wagner, Christopher J., Marcela Ossa Parra, and C. Patrick Proctor. "Teacher agency in a multiyear professional development collaborative." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 18, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 399–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0099.

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Purpose This paper aims to report on the decisions two teachers made about how to engage with a five-year school–university collaboration that used professional development (PD) to foster changes in language instruction for teachers of multilingual learners. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal case study was used to examine the experiences of two teachers to provide insights into classroom-level decisions and changes in instructional practices. Findings Changes in instructional practices occurred when teachers made active, engaged choices about their own learning and teaching in the classroom. Teacher learning did not follow a consistent trajectory of improvement and contained contradictions, and early decisions about how to engage with PD affected the pace and nature of teacher learning. Through personal decisions about how to engage with PD, teachers adopted new instructional practices to support multilingual learners. Positive changes required extended time for teachers to implement new practices successfully. Practical implications This collaboration points to a need for long-term PD partnerships that value teacher agency to produce instructional changes that support multilingual learners. Originality/value PD can play a key role in transforming literacy instruction for multilingual learners. Teacher agency, including the decisions teachers make about how to engage with professional learning opportunities and how to enact new instructional practices in the classroom, mediates the efficacy of PD initiatives. This longitudinal case study contributes to the understanding of effective PD by presenting two contrasting case studies of teacher agency and learning during long-term school–university collaboration.

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Willis, Jill, Kelli McGraw, and Linda Graham. "Conditions that mediate teacher agency during assessment reform." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 18, no. 2 (June 3, 2019): 233–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0108.

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Purpose A new senior curriculum and assessment policy in Queensland, Australia, is changing the conditions for teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to consider the personal, structural and cultural conditions that mediated the agency of Senior English teachers as they negotiated these changes. Agency is conceptualised as opportunities for choice in action arising from pedagogic negotiations with students within contexts where teachers’ decision-making is circumscribed by other pressures. Design/methodology/approach An action inquiry project was conducted with English teachers and students in two secondary schools as they began to adjust their practices in readiness for changes to Queensland senior assessment. Four English teachers (two per school) designed a 10-week unit of work in Senior English with the aim of enhancing students’ critical and creative agency. Five action/reflection cycles occurred over six months with interviews conducted at each stage to trace how teachers were making decisions to prioritise student agency. Findings Participating teachers drew on a variety of structural, personal and cultural resources, including previous experiences, time to develop shared understandings and the responsiveness of students that mediated their teacher agency. Teachers’ ability to exert agentic influence beyond their own classroom was affected by the perceived flexibility of established resources and the availability of social support to share student success. Originality/value These findings indicate that a range of conditions affected the development of teacher agency when they sought to design assessment to prioritise student agency. The variety of enabling conditions that need to be considered when supporting teacher and student agency is an important contribution to theories of agency in schools, and studies of teacher policy enactment in systems moving away from localised control to more remote and centralised quality assurance processes.

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Koskela, Teija, and Sirpa Kärkkäinen. "Student Teachers' Change Agency in Education for Sustainable Development." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 23, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2021-0007.

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Abstract Previous research shows that teachers are key players in supporting agency in the face of the biggest global challenges of our time, such as climate change and pollution, as teachers educate societies' future decision-makers. The aim of this study was to analyze student teachers' perceptions of change agency and sustainable development. In this qualitative case study, the writings of student teachers (n = 116) were studied in the context of sustainable development education. The data were analyzed using content analysis. The findings of the research confirmed previous studies showing that student teachers' perceptions of sustainable development were quite narrow. The results indicated that the student teachers wrote mainly about social dimensions of sustainable development; few of them considered economic or environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The results provided new information about the current state of student teachers' perceptions of change agency in the teacher education context. Teacher education should focus more on a holistic view of sustainable development aspects. These findings might be useful in implementing teacher education curricula.

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Skinnari, Kristiina. "CLIL Challenges: Secondary School CLIL Teachers’ Voices and Experienced Agency in Three European Contexts." Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning 2, no. 2 (September 20, 2020): 6–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.52598/jpll/2/2/2.

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This qualitative interview study focuses on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teacher agency in three European contexts, Austria, Finland and Andalusia, Spain. The aim of the study is to understand how individual CLIL teachers experience their agency when encountering challenges in their work and to demonstrate the multifaceted quality of their agency. The study employs the Listening Guide method (Gilligan, 2015) to listen to the voices of three secondary school subject teachers from three diverse contexts. The analysis shows that CLIL challenges both empowered and disempowered the teachers depending on how meaningful they found their work and what their possibilities to act were in their specific contexts. Some of the teachers’ CLIL experiences were similar, for instance, struggling alone with lack of support. However, these challenges did not affect the teachers’ agency in a straightforward way. In spite of the seemingly comparable challenges, the teachers described their unique experiences and ways to cope with the demands of their work in different ways. For example, using two languages or making their own materials was for some invigorating and for others problematic. In addition, during the interviews individual teachers also reported about their experiences in various ways, explaining, elaborating and balancing their thoughts with varying expressions of agency. Particularly significant for the teachers’ experiences of agency appeared to be the beginning of their CLIL career, however, their initial experiences of agency did not endure. The study shows that CLIL teacher agency is multivoiced, dynamic and often vulnerable.

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Juck, Matthew Anthony. "Exploring how coteaching impacted beginning science teachers' agency." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 2.66 Mb., 181 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435858.

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Song, Minjeong. "Beginning teachers' identity and agency : a case study of L2 English teachers in South Korea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:920f7cf5-c02f-4205-90a7-bca08c7095cb.

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Beginning teachers' first years of professional teaching have been extensively researched as a transformative time with a focus on their coping with praxis shock. Whilst the subtext of the literature often positions entrant teachers as in need of support and guidance at large, little research has concerned their agency at work, that is, how they create and recreate their opportunities for learning and development. The present study follows four beginning L2 English teachers' first year of teaching in two public high schools in South Korea and aims to understand how they navigate, make sense of, and act in and on the materialised worlds of teaching. To be specific, the study explores the thesis that beginning teachers' progression from university to work brings about their experiencing of consequential transition (Beach, 1999), that is, reshaping of identity, knowledge and skills. Drawing on Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner and Cain (1998), the study posits one's identity as objectified self-images which organise the person's actions in and on practices, hence a tool of agency, and applies the concept of identity as an analytic tool to examine the dialectic of person and practices. Also, Hedegaard's (2012) model, especially the notions of a social situation of development and an activity setting, is utilised to further delineate the dynamics entailed in beginning teachers' emergent identity and practices. The participants were interviewed prior to and at multiple time points throughout the school year 2013. Classroom observation was used to capture their emergent identity and practices and informed the interviews. The findings revealed some embedded contradictions which fuelled the beginning teachers' ambivalence towards how to objectify themselves as professionals. Their access to the world of teaching was granted based on the cultural logic that to be a teacher is to be proficient in subject matter, whilst their knowledge of pedagogy was almost ignored. In the classroom, however, their linguistic competence, that is, the core of their identity, was almost dismissed as irrelevant, since the virtue of subject teaching was gauged by its utility for test performance and achievement. Such a forceful motive of teaching to the test meant that the novice teachers all had to acquire the new identity of an exam coach. They also had to cope with other institutional demands, for which they had no prior formal training and structured guidance or support on site. They thus had to become self-reliant to improvise the kind of school identity expected of them. Especially, homeroom care duties were experienced as a make-or-break challenge for the new teachers. The findings point to suggestions for how to assist beginning teachers' transition to professional teaching in the South Korean context. First, the nation's initial teacher education (ITE) should expand how teaching and learning to teach are conceptualised in order to enhance the relevance of beginning teachers' initial identity to what happens in school practices. Second, ITE should incorporate more practice-oriented pedagogy to assist student teachers' development of true concepts for resilient initial identity. Finally, schools should promote teachers to engage with relational work (Edwards, 2010a) so that schools could create a culture in which inquiry and collaboration are nurtured for sustained professional dialogue and interaction, where new teachers also are invited and supported to question and clarify what matters in practices and pave their ways to become resilient professionals.

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Noonan, James. "Teachers Learning: Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Powerful Professional Development." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32663230.

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Professional development (PD) is seen by a broad cross-section of stakeholders — teachers, principals, policymakers — as essential for instructional improvement and student learning. And yet, despite deep investments of time and money in its design and implementation, the return on investment and subjective assessments about PD’s effectiveness remain uneven. In this thesis, I focus in-depth on professional development experiences that teachers identify as their most powerful and ask what these experiences could suggest toward improving PD design, policy, and research. Specifically, drawing on 25 in-depth accounts of powerful professional learning, I analyze PD across three papers, each of which applies a distinct analytical lens. First, using self-determination theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985, 2000), I explore the extent to which powerful learning experiences help to satisfy the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Second, using the growing body literature on professional identity (e.g., Beijaard et al., 2004), I posit that teachers may be motivated to pursue professional learning experiences that align with their core beliefs and identity. Extending this literature, I elaborate three distinct conceptions of how identity interacts with PD: an affinity for the what (content), the who (facilitation), and the with whom (community). I similarly discuss ways that powerful learning may help to form or transform teacher identity. Third, observing a pattern in the data and drawing on emerging literature on teacher agency (e.g., Priestley et al., 2015), I define teacher agency in professional learning as a multi-dimensional construct – agency over, during, and emerging from PD – and analyze the extent to which each dimension was evident in powerful and contrastingly negative professional learning experiences. I conclude that increasing dimensions of agency may be a promising lever for improving professional learning at both an individual and system level.Finally, by privileging teachers’ unique perspectives and emphasizing the deeply subjective nature of learning, this thesis aims both to complement and complicate the existing research on PD design and effectiveness and the policy imperative for scale.

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Peng, Suhao. "Novice Teachers’ Voices on Professional Agency and Professional Identity in Finland and China." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157206.

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Research in novice teachers has been wide and rich because they are experiencing a special period in their career life after spending their childhood in school and freshly graduating from teacher education. At the workplace, novice teachers might be specially treated because they are the newcomers, but they may want to realize some professional ideals. Research in novice teacher’s professional agency and professional identity needs to be enriched. Professional agency can be understood as initiatives taken at the workplace, and professional identity can be a “self” as a professional. Both professional agency and professional identity are complex when socio-cultural contexts and subjective factors are intertwined. However, they are related and interdependent—professional agency externalizes and negotiates professional identity, whereas professional identity internalizes and influences professional agency. By comparing ten novice teachers from China and Finland, the overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the degree of professional agency as well as professional identity from a developmental perspective so that the socio-cultural contexts, especially the education systems in Finland and China, and subjective factors can be understood. In this thesis, five novice teachers from China and five novice teachers from Finland were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. By adopting thematic analysis, the author has found that how those novice teachers’ voices on professional agency and professional identity are similar or different. The result shows that Finnish novice teachers enjoy a relatively higher degree of professional agency at the workplace, and they seem to be more well-prepared by according to the testimonies in the interviews. Early-childhood teachers’ wellbeing in Finland and China need to be considered in the future educational reforms and development.

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Lord, Janet. "Teachers' beings and doings : a study of identity and agency of four teachers in English secondary schools." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/teachers-beings-and-doings-a-study-of-identity-and-agency-of-four-teachers-in-english-secondary-schools(ac4bcbab-3dbc-4dff-aaa9-67db439fdf8d).html.

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Teachers' professional lives are situated at the intersection of local, national and global educational policy contexts. What they purposefully do (agency) and how they see themselves and their roles as teachers (identity) dynamically interact with such contexts. This study argues that in order to understand the meaningful professional development work of teachers, it is important to have an understanding of this interplay. Current dominant policy discourses concerning the 'improving teacher' and 'teaching as a craft' are examples of an over-reliant emphasis on more insular narratives of agentic teachers and teaching. As the research in this thesis shows, such narratives fail to take into account the complexities of factors and discourses that impact on the beings and doings of teachers, and are therefore inadequate. Based on an iterative dialogue between particular theoretical ideas and emerging case study data, the study proposes a multi-level integrating framework for understanding the experiences of teachers as they develop and locate a sense of their professional identity. Four teachers, from different types of English secondary schools, participated in the study. Data was generated from timelines, concept maps, lesson observations and interviews with the teacher participants. The case studies were presented as written portraits. Drawing on Archer's work (e.g. 2012) on reflexivity, the ways in which teachers' thinking mediated the links between their agency and structure were considered. The different modes of reflexivity that teachers employ and the ways in which teachers determine and facilitate personal projects of concern to them were found to be important to their professional identity and agency. The findings also suggested that the similarities and differences between the teachers were to do with how intersecting structural and cultural factors at global and local levels are mediated by individual forms of reflexivity. These forms of reflexivity are a reflection of evolving personal and social identities and an emerging social stance on society. The mediation produces particular professional concerns or projects that both suggest similarities that relate to powerful global discourses of education-such as performativity-but also particular types of agency and identity that are specific to those individual teachers' classrooms and general professional stance. The essence of the daily work of teachers appeared to reflect an intersection of personal biography and the situational structures and cultures of schools in which teachers operated, which brought about differences in professional thinking and doing. The thesis contributes to knowledge by adding to theory concerning identity and agency, as well as contributing to methodology by using portraits in understanding the nature of teacher agency and reflexivity. The factors that are identified and an insight into teachers' reflexivity contribute to the development of a toolkit for understanding teachers' identity and agency that may be useful for both teacher educators and policy makers.

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Bountri, Manthoula. "Teachers’ Perspectives on children’s agency and participation in kindergarten in Finland." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-172529.

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The present study aims to explore and delve into early childhood education teachers’ perception and interpretation of children’s agency and participation in the daily routines and planned activities in kindergartens in Finland. The daily established routines and planned activities take a significant amount of time in kindergarten. Therefore, it is essential to scrutinize how teachers engage children’s preferences, opinions, and participation in daily practice. The abovementioned rationale motivates the present qualitative research study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five early childhood teachers. Three of them work in international kindergartens and two of them in bilingual kindergartens (Finnish-English). The interview consisted of open-ended questions. They were structured to probe early childhood teachers’ experience in respect of the implementation of children’s agency and participation in the daily practices and the challenges that pedagogical personnel face. The collected data from the semi-structured interview were analyzed through thematic analysis. On one hand, the results showed a none or limited amount of children’s agency and participation in the daily established routines, whereas the amount of agency and participation is increased regarding the planned activities. On the other hand, challenging parameters are the management of the kindergarten and the number of children in a group.

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Fu, Guopeng. "Physics teachers and China's curriculum reform : the interplay between agency and structure." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50426.

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This study explored how individual and collective agencies among physics teachers in a select high school were enabled and constrained in the context of the on-going curriculum reform in China. Human agency as used in this study was informed by five perspectives: Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory; Giddens’ Structuration Theory; Giroux’s critical pedagogy; Seixas’ historical consciousness; and Davies’ feminist and poststructuralist perspective. The study employed autoethnographical methods including observation, interviewing, the researcher’s and teachers’ reflective journaling, and data collection through the researcher’s involvement with various school activities which took place in one high school. The analysis of the data corpus employed portraiture and constant comparative method. The portraits of the researcher and selected teachers depicted their agencies in terms of origin, motivation, shape, and negotiation. The findings included: 1) individual teacher agency was significantly influenced by history, currency, moral standards, and students; 2) collective agency was shaped by structural changes, leadership and modern technology; and 3) collective teacher agency created the demands for individual teachers’ professional development, a conducive culture for teacher collaboration, and concrete examples that teachers could constantly refer to, reflect upon, and learn from for reform implementation. These results offer important insights for understanding how physics teacher agency is manifest in the on-going curriculum reform in China. Further, the study offers a clear understanding of the influences underlying physics teachers’ agency deployment as they engage with the curriculum reform process. Finally, this study’s findings justify a case for preparing physics teachers on how to deploy both individual and collective agencies in the face of the complicated social structures and ultimately shed light on the desired curriculum decentralization in China.
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Huang, Jing. "Autonomy, agency and identity in foreign language learning and teaching." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41757981.

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Francis, D., and Roux A. Le. "Using life history to understand the interplay between identity, critical agency and social justice education." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 10, Issue 3: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/605.

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In this article we use the concepts identity, agency and social justice education as a lens to explore the role of life history research in the study of the interconnection between emerging teacher identities, critical agency and social justice education. By exploring the life history of a white woman pre-service teacher, this study foregrounds the use of life history research to help teacher educators to understand the contexts through which student teachers' identities are constructed, and how these identities feed into agency and a stance to bring about social change.

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He, Peichang, and 何佩嫦. "Learning to teach in school-university partnership: tension, agency and identity." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49858774.

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This thesis explores the identity formation of three EFL pre-service teachers during their teaching practicum in a school-university partnership school in Mainland China. Drawing on the sociocultural perspective, learning-to-teach is conceptualized as student teachers participating in and becoming a member of the communities of practice (Wenger, 1998) which consist of boundary-crossing members from both activity systems of the university and the school (Engestrom, 1987, 1999, 2001). Following a poststructural perspective, the student teachers’ learning-to-teach is also conceptualized as a process of “arguing for” (MacLure, 1993) their professional identities under dominant social discourses. Foucault’s (1983, 1985) concept of ethical identity formation elaborated into a framework of four ethico-political dimensions for doing teacher identity (Clarke, 2009) is adopted to further analysethe interactions between social structure and individual identity transformation. An ethnographic qualitative case study approach was adopted. Data collection methods included ethnographic observations of classroom interactions, focus group discussions and routine school activities, semi-structured interviews of student teachers and mentors, and collectioin of documents such as university teaching practicum documents, lesson plans, reflective diaries and newsletters. Both “content analysis” and “modified analytic induction” (Bogdan & Biklen, 2007; Merriam, 1998; Patton, 2002) were adopted to conduct within-case and cross-case data analysis. The multi-method approach allowed the researcher to collect and interpret data from both holistic and in-depth research perspectives which also enabled triangulations during data analysis. The analysis indicated that historical, cultural, political and economic forces intertwined and formed general social discourses. Their influences permeated into the discourses of both the university and the school activity systems. Due to the contradictory discourses of ELT education between the two institutions, the boundary-crossing learning-to-teach activities were replete with tensions, asymmetrical power relationships, and interpersonal conflicts, which combined to become driving forces for the different transformations of the three student teachers’ identities within the school-university partnership activity system as a global community of practice (COP). Due to different individual backgrounds, inner tensions and interpersonal conflicts within the COP, the student teachers led dissimilar legitimate peripheral participation (Lave & Wenger, 1991)trajectories through identifying themselves with different local sub-cops (T-cop and S-cop) in various modes of belonging. Under the domination of contradictory institutional discourses, the student teachers exercised their creative agencies and managed to find the “spaces” for their own freedom of self-formation via four ethico-political dimensions. Through critical reflection on the relation between the care of self and the care of others, the student teachers clarified, readjusted and reinforced their telos which is part and parcel of the ongoing interactions among the four ethico-political aspects of teacher identity. Based on the contradictions identified in this research, a critical and ethical pedagogy framework for EFL teacher education was conceptualized for ELT and teacher education programmes. This thesis also serves as an attempt to address teacher identity issues from the integrated perspectives of both sociocultural and poststructural approaches (Morgan, 2007) and to introduce the concept of ethico-politics of teacher identity to EFL teacher education.
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Agency through teacher education: Reflection, community, and learning. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

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Frechtling, Joy A. Best practice in action: Final report of the multi-agency study of teacher enhancement programs. [Washington, D.C.?]: Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 1997.

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Love, James. The Scottish Development Agency and regional policy: A resource for teachers of business studies and economics. Glasgow: Scottish Curriculum Development Service, 1985.

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Massachusetts. Dept. of Education. Workplace Literacy Program. Agency and partnership based orientation program for workplace educators. Malden, Mass: The Dept., 1993.

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Smallwood, Carol. A guide to selected federal agency programs and publications for librarians and teachers. Littleton, Colo: Libraries Unlimited, 1986.

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Porfilio, Bradley J., and Heather Hickman. Critical service-learning as revolutionary pedagogy: A project of student agency in action. Charlotte, N.C: Information Age Pub., 2011.

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Ofsted. In-service postgraduate training courses for teachers: An overview report of inspections of courses funded by the Teacher Training Agency : inspected between March 1999 and April 2000. London: Ofsted, 2001.

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Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education. In-service posrgraduate training courses for teachers: An overview report of inspections of courses funded by the Teacher Training Agency. : Inspected between March 1999 and April 2000. London: Office for Standards in Education, 2001.

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Trotz allem ...: Aron Menczer und die Jugendalijah. Wien: Edition INW, 2013.

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Agency, Teacher Training. Teacher Training Agency corporate plan. London: Teacher Training Agency, 2000.

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Jones, Ken, Chomin Cunchillos, Richard Hatcher, Nico Hirtt, Rosalind Innes, Samuel Johsua, and Jürgen Klausenitzer. "The Agency of Teachers." In Schooling in Western Europe, 165–84. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230579934_9.

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Mitchell, David. "Teachers and curriculum agency." In Hyper-Socialised, 15–23. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429441295-2.

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Shahrokhi, Farnoosh. "An Efficacious Professional Development Program for International Teachers." In Experiments in Agency, 11–23. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-944-7_2.

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Hull, Michael M., and Haruko Uematsu. "Development of Preservice Teachers’ Sense of Agency." In Research and Innovation in Physics Education: Two Sides of the Same Coin, 209–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51182-1_17.

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Ruohotie-Lyhty, Maria. "Identity-Agency in Progress: Teachers Authoring Their Identities." In Research on Teacher Identity, 25–36. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93836-3_3.

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Hall, Joan Kelly. "L2 Learning Is Mediated by Motivation, Investment, and Agency." In Essentials of SLA for L2 Teachers, 109–24. New York, NY: Routledge, [2018]: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315181271-7.

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Back, Michele. "7. World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use." In Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency, edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, and Gergana Vitanova, 101–20. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781788923927-009.

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Edwards, Emily. "9. English Language Teachers’ Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis." In Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency, edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, and Gergana Vitanova, 141–59. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781788923927-011.

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Stewart, Alison. "6. Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan." In Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency, edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, and Gergana Vitanova, 82–100. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781788923927-008.

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Alcántara, Minosca. "Teachers’ Mentoring Role, or Lack Thereof, in Latinas’ Erasure of a STEM Identity." In Latina Agency through Narration in Education, 138–54. New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Language, culture, and teaching series: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429055065-10.

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Kruglova, Marina, Elena Stolyarchuk, and Irina Panteenko. "Ergonomic predictors of chronic fatigue syndrome in teachers." In Personal resourse of human agency at work in changing Russia. ScientificWorld, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30888/978-5-6041451-4-2.1.16.

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Heinz, Manuela, Mary Fleming, Pauline Logue, and Joseph McNamara. "Collaborative learning, role play and case study: Pedagogical pathways to professionalism and ethics in school placement." In Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice. University College Cork||National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/lc2019.26.

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Teachers are moral agents. Acting professionally in loco parentis teachers have a legal and moral duty of care to students (DES, 2017). Moreover, they can be regarded as moral ‘role models’ (Bergen, 2006; Lumpkin, 2013). Professional codes of practice assist teachers in their moral agency (Alberta Teachers’ Association, 2004; CDET, 2017; DfE, 2011; Education Council, 2017; Teaching Council, 2012; 2016; World Class Teachers, 2017). In conjunction with official codes of conduct, TE ethics programmes contribute to the development of “a moral language” and raise awareness of moral agency in teaching (Shapira-Lishchinsky, 2010). In 2014 the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) jointly developed a cross-institutional training programme entitled ‘The Ethical Teacher Programme’, designed to facilitate student teachers to reflect upon professionalism and ethics during School Placement. The programme incorporated both a study of the Teaching Council Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers (Code) (2012) and explorations of selected ethical ‘case studies’ in teaching, using collaborative learning (CL) and role play strategies. The ‘ethical dilemma’ approach employed mirrored literature studies (Colenerud, 1997; Husu & Tiri, 2003; Klassen, 2002). Unique to the approach, however, was the method of application of selected classical and contemporary ethical philosophies to moral dilemmas in teaching. The programme was designed to include a one-hour introductory lecture on professionalism and ethics (from the perspectives of moral literacy and ethical theory) followed by a two-hour applied workshop. The workshop employed student-centred, active teaching and learning methods, specifically, collaborative learning, role play and case study analysis. Six ethical philosophical principles (or ‘lenses’) were integrated into programme delivery - teleology, deontology, virtue ethics, justice ethics, care ethics and relationality ethics. These lenses were applied to real-world teaching case studies. One cohort to which this training programme is offered annually is the student teachers on the Professional Master of Education (PME) programme in NUIG. The PME cohort (2015-2016) is the focus of the present study. The study sought a critical reflection on, and evaluation of, this training programme, from a student perspective. This study is phase one of a larger on-going study.

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Zotova, Marina, and Inga Valgasova. "Possibilities of student training center in professional formation of future teachers." In Personal resourse of human agency at work in changing Russia. ScientificWorld, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30888/978-5-6041451-4-2.2.15.

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Petanova, Elena. "Identity as a predictor of resilience in teachers of higher educational institutions." In Personal resourse of human agency at work in changing Russia. ScientificWorld, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30888/978-5-6041451-4-2.1.24.

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Heckmann, Tatiana. "Deficits in competencies of teachers of elementary stage of education in Germany." In Personal resourse of human agency at work in changing Russia. ScientificWorld, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30888/978-5-6041451-4-2.2.41.

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Robandi, Babang, Mamat Supriatna, Pupun Nuryani, and Teguh Ibrahim. "Teacher as a Moral Agency: An Idea of Pedagogy Teaching Profession Ethics-Critical Consciousness Based." In 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icset-17.2017.45.

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Titova, Mariia, and Alla Kuznetsova. "Functional states self-regulation psychological resources of school and college teachers working under implementation of innovations condition." In Personal resourse of human agency at work in changing Russia. ScientificWorld, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30888/978-5-6041451-4-2.1.30.

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"Work Performance Motivation of Chinese teachers of Chinese Language teaching agency in Bang Na district." In Dec. 16-17, 2016 Pattaya (Thailand). Dignified Researchers Publication, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.15242/dirpub.dirh1216011.

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Charbonneau-Gowdy, Paula Antoinette, and Danisa Thamara Salinas Carvajal. "Cracking the Cocoon: Promoting Self-Directed Lifelong Learning in EFL Pre-service Teachers in Chile Through the Guided Use of Social Media Tools." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5612.

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Abstract While is it an obvious observation that in the 21st century individuals will need to continue to learn to keep pace with the rapid changes that affect their personal and professional lives, the practicalities of doing so are daunting. Where do we begin to instill a sense of self-directed learning that leads to a lifelong pursuit of knowledge and, more importantly, how? The aim of our study was to determine the influence of providing guided support in the use of social media to a group of future EFL teachers in Chile. In this context, where traditional teaching practices and cultural norms, not to mention resistance to technology adoption often stand in the way of learner agency and evolving self-directed learner identities, we focussed on pre-service teachers as a strategic step in changing these trajectories. Our results were encouraging in that for this group of participants there was evidence of change not only in responsibility for learning but in a metacognitive awareness of ‘how’ to learn – key ingredients in reaching personal and professional potential. We conclude that the use of technology needs to be re-conceptualized as not only an information provider but as a key player in constructing self-directed, lifelong learners. Keywords: self-directed learning, social media, lifelong learning, Teacher Education, ICT, learner identities

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Williams, W. B., Fred DeJarnette, W. J. Craft, and B. M. Grossman. "Developing an Appreciation of the Basic Principles in Earth Sciences, Physics, and Mathematics Supporting Careers of the Future Through Workshops for Pre-College Teachers." In ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2004-61985.

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On September 26, 2002, the National Institute of Aerospace, NIA, was created near NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA as a result of a winning proposal submitted from the AIAA and a 6-university team in response to a broad agency announcement. Our proposal emphasized these four imperatives to: • Conduct leading edge aerospace & atmospheric science research and develop revolutionary new technologies by creating innovative, collaborative, synergistic partnerships among NASA’s Langley Research Center, academia, and industry; • Provide comprehensive graduate and continuing education in science and engineering by using both a local campus and exploiting innovative distance-learning concepts; • Incubate and stimulate the commercialization of new intellectual property developed through the Institute’s activities, including radical ideas and disruptive technologies; and • Promote aerospace science and engineering and provide outreach to the region and nation. As part of the fourth imperative, we specifically proposed to develop and conduct summer workshops for grade 6–12 teachers. This paper describes our experiences in planning and conducting our first teacher workshop in July, 2003.

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Macartney, Hugh, Robert McMillan, and Uros Petronijevic. Teacher Value-Added and Economic Agency. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24747.

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Wachen, John, Mark Johnson, Steven McGee, Faythe Brannon, and Dennis Brylow. Computer Science Teachers as Change Agents for Broadening Participation: Exploring Perceptions of Equity. The Learning Partnership, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/conf.2021.2.

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In this paper, the authors share findings from a qualitative analysis of computer science teachers’ perspectives about equity within the context of an equity-focused professional development program. Drawing upon a framework emphasizing educator belief systems in perpetuating inequities in computer science education and the importance of equity-focused teacher professional development, we explored how computer science teachers understand the issue of equity in the classroom. We analyzed survey data from a sample of participants in a computer science professional development program, which revealed that teachers have distinct ways of framing their perceptions of equity and also different perspectives about what types of strategies help to create equitable, inclusive classrooms reflective of student identity and voice.

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Ruben, Barbara. Nurturing the Development of Teacher Change Agents Within a Teacher Education Program. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1990.

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Hobson, Beverly. Teacher Perceptions of Evaluation as an Agent for Teacher Growth and Improvement of Instruction. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1220.

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Muñoz, Katia, and Ricardo Lhur. Docentes en la profesión de Relaciones Públicas: del agente de prensa al gestor de comunicación en redes - Public Relations teachers: from media agents to network communication managers. Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas, May 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/rirp-1-2011-05-111-124.

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Henrick, Erin, Steven McGee, Lucia Dettori, Troy Williams, Andrew Rasmussen, Don Yanek, Ronald Greenberg, and Dale Reed. Research-Practice Partnership Strategies to Conduct and Use Research to Inform Practice. The Learning Partnership, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/conf.2021.3.

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This study examines the collaborative processes the Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFÉCS) uses to conduct and use research. The CAFÉCS RPP is a partnership between Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Loyola University Chicago, The Learning Partnership, DePaul University, and University of Illinois at Chicago. Data used in this analysis comes from three years of evaluation data, and includes an analysis of team documents, meeting observations, and interviews with 25 members of the CAFÉCS RPP team. The analysis examines how three problems are being investigated by the partnership: 1) student failure rate in an introductory computer science course, 2) teachers’ limited use of discussion techniques in an introductory computer science class, and 3) computer science teacher retention. Results from the analysis indicate that the RPP engages in a formalized problem-solving cycle. The problem-solving cycle includes the following steps: First, the Office of Computer Science (OCS) identifies a problem. Next, the CAFÉCS team brainstorms and prioritizes hypotheses to test. Next, data analysis clarifies the problem and the research findings are shared and interpreted by the entire team. Finally, the findings are used to inform OCS improvement strategies and next steps for the CAFÉCS research agenda. There are slight variations in the problem-solving cycle, depending on the stage of understanding of the problem, which has implications for the mode of research (e.g hypothesis testing, research and design, continuous improvement, or evaluation).

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