Teacher Agency
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 26. September 2019
160 pages
978-1-83909-389-0 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue on teacher agency offers a landmark vehicle for documenting the agentivespaces English language arts (ELA) teachers are able to forge, amid the constraints of currenteducation contexts. Our call for papers for this special issue invited literacy researchers andpractitioners to consider, among other provocations, the contextual factors that give rise todifferent forms of agency in research; how sociocultural environments in which teachers workmediate agentive action in theory; how teachers work agentively, in relation to specificcurriculum and discipline-related conditions, to establish an ethic of care and humanizeeducation in practice; and how specific educational policies around the world shape teacheragency, identity, and culture in policy.
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- Cover
- EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
- Guest editorial
- Teacher agency in English language arts teaching: a scoping review of the literature
- Adaptive agency
- Polic(y)ing time and curriculum: how teachers critically negotiate restrictive policies
- Expanding repertoires of resistance
- Rights, duties and spaces of agency amidst high-stakes testing
- Promoting teachers' agency and creative teaching through research
- Conditions that mediate teacher agency during assessment reform
- Agency as the achievement of reform ownership
- Literacy educators' practices of solidarity within an educational network
