The aim of this study was to investigate student teachers' agency in their identity negotiations as first-year students on a path towards becoming teachers. A narrative inquiry approach was employed in the analysis of the interviews conducted with 16 Finnish student teachers. One master narrative and two counter-narratives were identified in which…

The study investigated Finnish in-service primary school teachers' (N = 815) sense of professional agency and inadequacy in teacher-student interaction over a five-year period. Teachers' professional agency refers to a capacity that prepares for new learning, and consists of teachers' motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and strategies for learning.…

Teachers have faced a multitude of demands over the past two years and faced new challenges as schools returned in the fall of 2021. Using the Job Demands-Resources model as a framework, the current study identified factors contributing to teacher burnout following the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine predictors of teacher burnout, the authors…