A growing concern in graduate medical education (GME), research indicates that some graduating residents are unprepared to enter unsupervised practice. The aim of this qualitative phenomenological study is to illuminate the resident experience surrounding the development of autonomy in clinical decision making relative to teaching practices.…

Notable within the rhetoric of recent global reform trends is the (re)positioning of teachers from peripheral to critical stakeholders in educational change processes. Responding to this imperative, programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) are now frequently tasked with promoting teacher agency as a core dimension of teaching. Yet, much…

Librarians at a Midwestern, midsized state university studied the application of their flexible programmatic information literacy rubric to one-shot first-year writing library instruction. Ten librarians taught 23 sessions of first-year writing on information access skills and assessed each class using the flexible programmatic information…

This qualitative study examined coach-teacher interactions among eight teachers, one administrator, and three university-based coaches in one rural elementary school. Framed within a theory of agency, we examined videos of coaching interactions as coaches and teachers debriefed and co-planned vocabulary instructional ideas stemming from a…

This chapter presents three Chinese teachers' narrative accounts about how they live in dilemmatic spaces due to excessive entitlement. Still, the teachers move forward with transformative agency. The thick description of the three teacher participants has been reported elsewhere as the narratives of Lee -- a math teacher, Ping -- a Chinese…

Scholars have analyzed debates about controversial faculty speech inside and outside of the classroom, but none have paid close attention to the facet of academic freedom related to professors' decisions about daily teaching methods. This omission, along with obstacles to enacting pedagogical norms, has caused the scholarly community to overlook…

Teacher professional autonomy is important to teachers' work satisfaction, efficiency, well-being, and empowerment. However, it cannot simply be defined as freedom from control because it is relational and contextual. In this paper, we examine the relationality and contextual sensitivity of teacher professional autonomy at 'Newstall' College, a…

Teacher curriculum leadership is a key driver of curriculum reform in basic education and of improvements in student literacy. The mechanisms that underlie its development therefore constitute an important area of study. This case study analyzed the developmental trajectory of three teachers who became curriculum leaders. Results showed that from…

This qualitative case study explores teacher support and persistence in a large virtual charter school in the midwestern part of the United States. Using self-determination theory as a theoretical lens, this study examines how the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness of teachers in a virtual charter school are supported or…

This study assesses the role a teacher-led social studies group played in the evolution of three teachers' professional biographies over the course of seven years. It uses a conceptual framework based on Priestley, Biesta and Robinson's (2015) theory of teacher agency to explore the ecological relationships between professional biography, the…

Background/purpose: This study aims to determine the effect of faculty members' psychological empowerment on their change orientation and the mediating role of knowledge inertia (learning and experience) in this effect. Materials/methods: A cross-sectional research design was used to achieve this goal. The opinions of 398 faculty members working…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to critically review current studies on job crafting to identify contextual factors related to employees' job crafting and to integrate the findings to help organizations improve employees' job crafting. Design/methodology/approach Based on the guidelines provided by Torraco (2016), the authors reviewed 44…

Teachers' professional learning is a desired goal, which contributes to the improvement of educational outcomes. Some claim it can take place on the job, specifically when teachers co-teach with and mentor student-teachers. Nevertheless, only little is known regarding student-teachers' role in shaping the learning experience of mentor-teachers. We…

Teachers' agency in using teaching and learning resources (TLRs) like teachers' guides and learners' textbooks is crucial for developing countries to achieve the sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4) of education quality. I analysed 29 lesson plans and interview data from 6 grade 2 teachers from two schools to examine factors that influence their…

This paper reports on a qualitative study which investigated teachers' explanations for changes to their practice over time. In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 teachers from two states in the Northeastern United States of America, asking them to reflect on changes to their practice. These teachers were mostly…