Teacher Agency in Curriculum Making: Agents of Change and Spaces for Manoeuvre
University of Stirling · University of the West of Scotland
Abstract
In the wake of new forms of curricular policy in many parts of the world, teachers are increasingly required to act as agents of change. And yet, teacher agency is under-theorised and often misconstrued in the educational change literature, wherein agency and change are seen as synonymous and positive. This paper addresses the issue of teacher agency in the context of an empirical study of curriculum making in schooling. Drawing upon the existing literature, we outline an ecological view of agency as an effect. These insights frame the analysis of a set of empirical data, derived from a research project about curriculum-making in a school and further education college in Scotland. Based upon the evidence, we…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 65.23
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 67
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4Topics & keywords
- Agency (philosophy)
- Curriculum
- Context (archaeology)
- Pedagogy
- Set (abstract data type)
- Sociology
- Empirical research
- Mathematics education
- Quality Education