Professional agency for learning as a key for developing teachers' competencies?

A Toom, K Pyhältö, J Pietarinen, T Soini - Education sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Teacher's professional competencies have been discussed extensively in the literature,
often linked to educational policy discourses, teaching standards, student learning …

Teacher's professional agency–a relational approach to teacher learning

J Pietarinen, K Pyhältö, T Soini - Learning: Research and Practice, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The study aims to gain a better understanding of the complexity of teacher learning by
exploring the elements of teachers' sense of professional agency in the two primary contexts …

Teachers' professional and pedagogical competencies: A complex divide between teacher work, teacher knowledge and teacher education

A Toom - The SAGE handbook of research on teacher education, 2017 - torrossa.com
Teacher competencies and their learning during teacher education and in the profession
has long puzzled researchers working on teacher education (Korthagen, 2004; Struyven & …

Shaping agency through theorizing and practicing teaching in teacher education

E Maclellan - The SAGE handbook of research on teacher education, 2017 - torrossa.com
The construct of agency has a long and rich history, having been explored from a range of
disciplinary perspectives. Agency as the capacity to produce effects is a critical idea in …

Understanding the development of teachers' professional competencies as personally, situationally and socially determined

S Blömeke, G Kaiser - International handbook of research on teacher …, 2017 - torrossa.com
Research on teacher education, teachers' professional development and the necessary
prerequisites has become a prolific and productive field growing with enormous speed …

Aiming for agency. The effects of teacher education on the development of the expertise of early childhood teachers

AMG Oosterhoff, ICE Oenema-Mostert… - Teaching and Teacher …, 2020 - Elsevier
Researchers worldwide have emphasized the critical role of teacher education in preparing
teachers to respond in a professional manner to the prevailing discourse of accountability …

Professional agency and its features in supporting teachers' learning during an in-service education programme

M Kauppinen, J Kainulainen, P Hökkä… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Research has shown that professional agency is pivotal for understanding teachers'
professional learning in different contexts. However, we lack an elaborated understanding of …

[PDF][PDF] Teacher agency

G Sang - Encyclopedia of teacher education, 2020 - researchgate.net
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 …

What contributes to first-year student teachers' sense of professional agency in the classroom?

T Soini, J Pietarinen, A Toom, K Pyhältö - Teachers and Teaching, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores Finnish first-year primary teacher students'(N= 244) sense of
professional agency in the classroom. In addition, the interrelation between student …

The development of student teachers' sense of professional agency in the classroom during teacher education

L Heikonen, J Pietarinen, A Toom, T Soini… - … Research and Practice, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Teacher education needs to facilitate the development of student teachers' capacity for
active and skilful learning in classroom interaction, referred to as sense of professional …