What is agency? Conceptualizing professional agency at work

A Eteläpelto, K Vähäsantanen, P Hökkä… - Educational research …, 2013 - Elsevier
The concept of agency has become widely used in learning research, especially in studies
addressing professional and workplace learning, but also in policy discussion on how to …

[HTML][HTML] Teacher educators' professional agency in facilitating professional digital competence

I Nagel, GB Guðmundsdóttir, HW Afdal - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2023 - Elsevier
This study builds on a comprehensive conceptualisation of teachers' professional digital
competence (PDC) that goes beyond the use of technology for teaching and learning. We …

Teacher educators' collective professional agency and identity–Transforming marginality to strength

P Hökkä, K Vähäsantanen, S Mahlakaarto - Teaching and teacher …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigated teacher educators' collective professional agency and identity within
an identity coaching programme. The participants in the programme were teacher educators …

How do novice teachers in Finland perceive their professional agency?

A Eteläpelto, K Vähäsantanen, P Hökkä - Teachers and Teaching, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated novice teachers' perceptions of their professional agency during the
initial years of their work in schools. The research questions were:(i) How do novice …

Loose and tight coupling in educational organizations–an integrative literature review

T Hautala, J Helander, V Korhonen - Journal of Educational …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize the attributes of loose and
tight coupling in educational organizations. In addition, it is aimed to determine whether this …

Seeking new perspectives on the development of teacher education: A study of the Finnish context

P Hökkä, A Eteläpelto - Journal of teacher education, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies show that changes in teacher education around the world occur slowly and are
difficult to implement. This study aims to contribute to the discussion on the major resources …

Identity and agency in professional learning

A Eteläpelto, K Vähäsantanen, P Hökkä… - … handbook of research in …, 2014 - Springer
This chapter elaborates professional learning from two complementary perspectives, namely
professional identity and agency. Starting with the conceptualization of identity and agency …

Teacher agency within the Finnish CLIL context: Tensions and resources

S Pappa, J Moate, M Ruohotie-Lyhty… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Recent discussion indicates that the initial enthusiasm of Content and Language Integrated
Learning (CLIL) teachers can be undermined by the demands of foreign-language mediated …

Global crisis management and higher education: Agency and coupling in the context of wicked COVID‐19 problems

A Oleksiyenko, P Mendoza, FEC Riaño… - Higher Education …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Campus crisis management remains an understudied topic in the context of COVID‐affected
higher education. In this paper, we contrasted the ability to tame the wicked problems …

[PDF][PDF] Vocational teachers' professional agency in the stream of change

K Vähäsantanen - 2013 - jyx.jyu.fi
Vocational Teachers’ Professional Agency in the Stream of Change Page 1 Vocational
Teachers’ Professional Agency in the Stream of Change Katja Vähäsantanen JYVÄSKYLÄ …