2023
DOI: 10.1002/curj.224
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Space as a lens for teacher agency: A case study of three beginning teachers in England, UK

Elizabeth A. C. Rushton,
Amy Bird

Abstract: Drawing on conceptualisations of space, we explored the ways three beginning teachers in England experienced and developed agency during the first three years of their careers. We completed a series of interviews with the same three teachers during their year of Initial Teacher Education and subsequent two years as Early Career Teachers; a total of 15 interviews over three years). Our findings demonstrated that the key barrier to agency beginning teachers experienced was a rigid curriculum, with reduced opport… Show more

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“…The aim of the current project, consisting of four studies, was to develop and test a real-life instrument to measure teacher agency from an ecological perspective. As Rushton & Bird (2023) pointed out, elements of teacher agency are nonlinearly intertwined and thus do not act in isolation but rather interact with each other in situations, which led us to provide context-rich descriptions of situations for measuring agency. This type of research emphasizes the collection of in-depth, contextual data through methods to understand the complex and dynamic nature of human behavior, interactions, and structures within specific social and cultural contexts (Lave & Wenger, 1991).…”
Section: Aim Of the Projectmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The aim of the current project, consisting of four studies, was to develop and test a real-life instrument to measure teacher agency from an ecological perspective. As Rushton & Bird (2023) pointed out, elements of teacher agency are nonlinearly intertwined and thus do not act in isolation but rather interact with each other in situations, which led us to provide context-rich descriptions of situations for measuring agency. This type of research emphasizes the collection of in-depth, contextual data through methods to understand the complex and dynamic nature of human behavior, interactions, and structures within specific social and cultural contexts (Lave & Wenger, 1991).…”
Section: Aim Of the Projectmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using the diverse set of scenarios as conversation starters -rather than as a measurement tool as we intended -can serve as a way to contribute to deep introspection and promote self-awareness and growth. Conversations or reflections through scenarios can reveal relationships and structures in this way, which is important in developing agency (Priestley et al, 2015;Rushton & Bird, 2023).…”
Section: Implications and Conclusionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Promoting learner autonomy also proves to be beneficial for educators -as proven by Jerrim et al (2023), teachers with very low levels of autonomy are more likely to report reduced job satisfaction. At the same time, however, individual professional autonomy does not prove appropriate in cases of continuing students' academic underperformance (Day, 2020), while strengthening teacher agency can be difficult to achieve due to perceived issues of workload, accountability and rigid curriculum (Hughes & Lewis, 2020;Rushton & Bird, 2023).…”
Section: Research Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, climate change education is a key element responding to climate change (UNESCO, 2019), and thus also related practices have been studied recently (Monroe et al, 2019). In this article, we specifically focus on sustainability and climate change education for teachers, because teachers have an important role in educating the future generations and have shown to express valuable insight on improving climate change education in schools (Rushton, Dunlop & Atkinson, 2024).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(Redman et al, 2018). Teachers have also shown to have valuable ideas on how to develop climate change education (Sihvonen et al, 2023;Rushton, Dunlop & Atkinson, 2024). However, not all teacher education programs have been able support teachers in their sustainability teaching abilities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%