… This doctoral thesis reports on a study on vocational teachers’ professional agency amid
changing work practices. … At the same time, the teachers have faced changes in the
structure and management of their organizations. With this kind of changing landscape as
background, this study addresses vocational teachers’ professional agency by generally
asking whether teachers work and drift at the mercy of the stream of change as being
subjugated by external demands, or whether they are able to be active actors in terms of …