Agency is emerging as a key concept, as part of increased debates about rigid
accountability in measures of teacher effectiveness. However, the construct is elusive …

Drawing on conceptualisations of space, we explored the ways three beginning teachers in
England experienced and developed agency during the first three years of their careers. We …

There is an ongoing tension within educational policy worldwide between countries that
seek to reduce the opportunities for teachers to exert judgement and control over their own …

This paper introduces an ecological approach to teacher agency which facilitates a nuanced
understanding of teacher agency, critical in an era where teachers are positioned as playing …

Teachers are frontline actors in actualising educational innovations. In some contexts,
teachers' professional agency is undervalued. This study investigated teachers' agency and …

Teacher agency is suggested to be a key capability not only for facilitating student learning
but also for continuing professional development, collaborative teacher learning and school …

Drawing on agency literature, this paper demonstrates how teachers' professional agency
emerged when seemingly conflicting strategies were imposed on them in policy reform …

Throughout the world, a call for teachers to be agentic professionals has emerged in
literature as a strategic response to policy agendas promoting rigid accountability of …

Globally, national curriculum policies are up for renegotiation. These negotiations are
shaped by international and national top-down accountability regimes, and an increasing …

Even though there is no common conceptual basis guiding teacher education in Canada,
over the past two decades teacher educators both in Canada and around the world have …