Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta, Sarah Robinson

Teacher Agency (eBook, PDF)

An Ecological Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers 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 this 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 of teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472525871
• Artikelnr.: 43594547

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change 1.
Understanding Teacher Agency 2. Teacher Beliefs and Aspirations 3. Teacher
Vocabularies and Discourses 4. The Importance of Relationships 5.
Performativity and Teacher Agency 6. Individual, Cultural and Structural
Framings of Agency Conclusion: Fostering Teacher Agency References Index