Teacher shortage constitutes a crisis in the U.S. and education system at-large. In light of teacher severity turnover rate, purpose this paper is to join dialogue further conversation regarding how believing or reinforcing stereotypes can contribute burnout unrealistic expectations teachers face education. Suggestions for pre-service in-service acquire more realistic resilient lens themselves ...

Abstract This chapter approaches the policy-practice nexus by scrutinizing relationship between teacher agency and professional autonomy. Teacher has usually been researched from two different perspectives. On one side, scholars are concerned with questions of autonomy vis-à-vis specific accountability regimes, apply, in broadest sense, a governance framework. other, there is more normatively g...

BACKGROUND Brunei started implementing its two main reformed teacher education programs, MTeach and MEd, in 2009. The reasons for these innovations included upgrading the standard of teacher training, increasing teaching effectiveness, and improving the quality of education in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine how student teachers coped with and sought help on the challeng...

Transformational leadership researchers have given little attention to teacher expectations that mediate between goals and actions. The most important of these expectations, teacher efficacy, refers to teacher beliefs that they will be able to bring about student learning. This study examined the mediating effects of teacher efficacy by comparing two models derived from Bandura’s social-cogniti...

In this article, we seek to theorize the role of kindergarten teacher as an agency mobiliser for sustainability through keeping concept child in play, ultimately envisioning a knowledgeable and connectable collective. This implies non-dialectical politics multiplicity ready support join creative pluralism educational organization roles sustainability. Comprising friction zones between actual vi...

This article provides a conceptual clarification of the complementary relationship between teachers’ research literacy and their role-based agency. In many countries, teachers are increasingly expected to actively use develop research. However, without taking account distinct conditions agency, this expectation may weaken rather than strengthen profession. Top-down mechanisms that push follow r...