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Halvorsen, Øyvind Wiik; Eide, Liv; Ulvik, Marit – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This article examines the sociocultural shaping of "teacher agency" by focusing on how various conditions "mediate" teachers' perceived professional space. Agency is understood from a "sociocultural" perspective as the mediated capacity to act, which is achieved and exercised "in" a professional space, and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Professional Identity
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Maaranen, Katriina; Afdal, Hilde Wågsås – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In this study, we explore teachers' professional space as an alternative to, and/or expansion of earlier conceptualizations of teacher autonomy. Professional space is here understood both as an objective space with e.g., physical, juridical, economic features, and as the teachers' subjective negotiation of this objective space, where teachers are…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Gudmundsdottir, Greta Björk; Hathoway, Dawn M. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
As of mid-April 2020, 1.5 billion learners were affected by school closures across 191 countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic (UNESCO, 2020). During the weeks of school closures, teachers were expected to become online teachers overnight. As teacher educators, we were curious about teachers' readiness for online practice. In the Teachers'…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teacher Empowerment, Crisis Management, Disease Control