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Integrated initial and continuing training as a way of developing the professional agency of teachers and student teachers
Jan VarpanenTuulikki Ukkonen-mikkolasubject
Student teacherTraining (civil)preschoolEducationprimary schoolSchool teachersPedagogyAgency (sociology)ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION0501 psychology and cognitive sciencestäydennyskoulutusopettajankoulutusPilot trainingteacher educationConceptualization05 social sciences050301 educationluokanopettajatprofessional agencytoimijuusContinuous trainingammatillinen kehitysvarhaiskasvatuksen opettajatPsychology0503 education050104 developmental & child psychologyprofessional developmentdescription
In this paper, we discuss training aimed at supporting the professional agency of teachers and student teachers. Drawing on socio-cultural and post-structural theories, we conceptualize professional agency as achieved by participation in professional practices. We employ our conceptualization in an analysis of a Finnish pilot training that combined initial and continuous training for preschool and primary school teachers. We argue that the practices of reflection and collective enquiry inherent in the model offer a fruitful starting point for further efforts to understand how to support the development of the professional agency of teachers and student teachers simultaneously. peerReviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-01 |