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What if Teachers Learn in the Classroom?
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Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Teacher Development, 2016
This study focuses on exploring teacher learning in terms of teachers' professional agency embedded in the classroom. Teachers' sense of professional agency is related to perceiving instruction as a bidirectional process, use of students as a resource for professional learning and continuous reflection on teaching practices. Accordingly, the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Correlation, Teacher Burnout
Teachers' Professional Agency and Learning--From Adaption to Active Modification in the Teacher Community
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Pyhältö, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
The aim of this study was to examine teacher learning in terms of teachers' professional agency in the professional community of the school. Altogether 2310 Finnish comprehensive school teachers completed a survey. Results showed that teachers' active efforts to learn in the professional community and to promote school development cannot be…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Foreign Countries, Teacher Surveys, Communities of Practice