Teacher Agency in Curriculum Making: Agents of Change and Spaces for Manoeuvre
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Teacher Agency in Curriculum Making: Agents of Change and Spaces for Manoeuvre
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 curr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Curriculum Inquiry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0362-6784,1467-873X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-873x.2012.00588.x