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Agency at Work, Learning and Professional Development: An Introduction

Susanna PaloniemiMichael Goller

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05 social sciencesControl (management)Professional development050301 educationProactivityProfessional studiesEmpirical researchWork (electrical)Political scienceProfessional learning community0502 economics and businessAgency (sociology)PedagogyEngineering ethics0503 education050203 business & management

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The concept of agency refers to individuals’ capacity to make choices and to act on these choices to exert control over their lives. Such notions of agency have become increasingly popular within discourses on professional learning and development over the last 10–20 years. Unfortunately, these discourses have been rather abstract in nature. In addition, the various research strands concerned with agency in the workplace and its relationship to learning have been insufficiently integrated. The present book thus aims to collect, integrate and discuss within a single volume the range of perspectives on agency at work and the empirical research generated by these perspectives. It is hoped that this book will advance a shared understanding of agency at work and its relationship with professional learning and development. This chapter introduces and summarises the chapters which follow.

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2017-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60943-0_1