Manifestation the levels of teachers professional agency: toward a conceptual framework
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Khalil Gholami [1]
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[1] University of Kurdistan
University of Kurdistan
Irán
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- Localización: Search and research [Recurso electrónico]: teacher education for contemporary contexts / coord. por Juan José Mena Marcos, Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso, Francisco José García Peñalvo, Marta Martín del Pozo, 2017, ISBN 978-84-9012-769-8, págs. 63-71
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper is to address the nature of teacher professional agency in line with the socio-cultural context they teach in. Teachers professional agency may be described as the capacity of teachers to put force different pedagogical actions within the constrains and possibilities of the socio-cultural structures of their societies. Using a research synthesis and qualitative study, we studied the nature of teacher professional agency. In the first stage, we combined the results of major relevant studies and in the second stage, we interviewed 10 teachers in Kurdistan, Iran. The findings showed that teachers professional agency can be manifested in four ontological levels: passive, reflexive, constructive, and critical agency. We argue, however that theses stages were not hierarchical.
