This article aimed to investigate how student podcasts, under specific circumstances, can constitute a novel and potentially powerful format for agency. We examined teacher education programme in which initiated podcast was created as space dialogue reflection on vital educational issues. Taking sociocultural approach, we study the enactment of agency teachers critically interact with different...

Societal, structural, value-based or economic changes and related to technological developments necessitate a continuous development process in the field of education. In responding changes, teacher agency becomes key factor. This study explores when context reform provides basis for growth it disables potential agency. The analysis is based on empirical data gathered as part large-scale mixed-...

This paper analyses Gen Y pre-service primary school teachers’ conceptualisations of lifelong learning. It is situated within a context of improving the provision and delivery of pre-service teacher education. This paper argues that Gen Y’s understanding of lifelong learning has been influenced by their engagements with digital technologies and that while they may have appropriated the Discours...

The aim of this paper is to describe the identity and agency two teacher educators who explored critical language education by following a comprehensive sexuality (CSE) approach gender perspective in their English teaching methodology modules. study adopted duoethnographic through which (based Argentina Germany respectively) reflected on practice maintaining regular Zoom meetings shared online ...

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...