Teachers can and should play a powerful active role in promoting societal inclusion and
equity for all learners. There is an emerging interest among teacher education scholars in …

Teacher agency (TA) has been increasingly supported as an influential factor for teacher
professional learning, school improvement and sustainable educational change. Previous …

This study explores how teachers enact agency to facilitate their professional development
during curricular reform at a Chinese university. An analysis of data derived from life history …

Policies around the world increasingly call for teachers to become 'agents of change', often
linked to social justice agendas. However, there is little clarity about the kind of …

This article explores feeling rules and emotion labor as tools of language teachers' agency
and decision-making. Grounded in a poststructural-discursive approach to emotions, one …

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 …

Internationally teachers are called upon to act as agents of change. However, there is little
clarity about the kind of change teachers are expected to contribute to and even less …

One reason reform does not dramatically change public schools is because instructional
practices are highly institutionalized. This article advances a theory for how teacher agency …

Despite the potential of digitally enhanced learning environments for supporting twenty-first-
century learning and educational change, there is a dearth of research knowledge on …

This narrative case study examined how a Hispanic language teacher invested agency
while developing professional identities in different contexts. A recursive analysis of …