Drawing on the post-structural views and the literature on teacher identity and agency, and
using narrative inquiry, this paper describes how one teacher candidate majoring in Spanish …

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 …

Based on years of extensive research on teacher development, this book offers a practical
introduction to the concept of teacher reflection, demonstrating how student teachers can …

Despite a surge of research interest in pre-service teachers' identities over the past years,
scant attention has been paid to th e process of their identity construction during their …

Educational change initiatives, whether they involve the implementation of new policies or
curriculum reforms, often fail to reach the level of teachers' classroom practices. In the …

To meet society's changing demands, the responsive development of curricula is vital, and
curriculum developers need to increasingly foresee and incorporate changes into their …

This article offers insight into teacher agency in professional development programmes,
focusing on a national policy initiative in Sweden aiming to provide in-depth professional …

Despite the recent growth of research on language teacher educators'(LTEs)
professionalism, little research is available on their agency. In response to this gap of …

Purpose The growing body of knowledge on language teacher agency highlights the
positive contributions of agency for teacher identity construction. However, teachers may …

This study explores the motivation of 'high-status' professionals to change career and enter
teaching, and their experience of undertaking initial teacher education (ITE) programmes in …