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Is timing everything? : a longitudinal perspective on adult transitions, their antecedents, and psychological implications
2012
«Come si diventa vecchi»: autopercezione e rappresentazione dell’invecchiamento a Palermo
2008
All’interno della family “Autopercezione della condizione anzianainvecchiamento” sono stati raccolti i codici che concettualmente sono riferibili ai processi di invecchiamento e all’ageing agency così come percepiti nelle diverse ricostruzioni biografiche. Si distingue all'interno del campione la variabile di genere, tenendo in considerazione l'autopercezione dell’invecchiamento in quanto degenerazione fisica, difficoltà di portare a compimento le normali routine quotidiane.
Between theory and practice – foreign language teacher students’ cognition of oral proficiency and grammar teaching in Sweden
2019
The present study explores patterns of cognition among 14 foreign language (FL) teacher students in Sweden regarding teaching oral proficiency and grammar in French German, Italian and Spanish. It is based on reflective cumulative log texts written by the students during a theoretical course in FL pedagogy. The log texts were investigated using qualitative content analysis to uncover central themes and patterns of agency. The findings indicate, among other things, that the FL teacher students hold strong experience-based cognitions regarding teaching both oral proficiency and grammar, and that, regardless if their FL learning experiences at school were based on form-focused teaching or comm…
Il percorso temporale soggettuale come linea guida del macro-processo psicoanalitico
2022
L’autore, con il seguente scritto, propone una sua personale rivisitazione della lettura del processo psicoanalitico, partendo da un percorso soggettuale che si sviluppa a partire dalle prime relazioni con il caregiver, all’interno di un funzionamento generale dei sistemi dinamici complessi non lineari. Viene proposto, rispetto ad ogni passaggio (coscienza - coscienza della coscienza - creatività) come evoluzione del processo esposto precedentemente da Minolli (2015), la costruzione di un percorso temporale soggettuale all’interno dell’auto-(geno-feno)-organizzazione (Morin, 1980). Tale lettura del macro-processo (che interessa lunghi periodi del percorso analitico), dovrà essere successiva…
Subaltern Agency and Language Education Policy: Implementing a language policy for on the ground
2011
The focus in this paper is on the implementation of language policy in education. It explores and discusses the notion of subaltern agency in an education organization. Recent language policy research highlights individual and collective agency in the processes of language use, attitudes and policies. People on the ground, charged with implementation are not the passive receivers of policies or the vague resistors once depicted in research accounts, referring to public body practitioners, but social actors who can exercise subaltern agency. The aim is to show that language policies are not merely implemented, but are actually shaped on the ground. Examples of subaltern agency from a case st…
Teachers' Professional Identity Negotiations in Two Different Work Organisations
2008
Recent studies have described professional identity as the interplay between individual agency and social context. However, we need to understand how these are intertwined in different kinds of work settings. This paper focuses on teachers’ professional identity negotiations as involving the work organisation, the professional community and individual agency. The data were gathered from two work organisations representing different management cultures and sources of control over teachers’ work. Open-ended narrative interviews were used, focusing on teachers’ own experiences and perceptions. A data-driven qualitative analysis was applied. Our findings indicated that different work organisati…
Emotionally loaded identity and agency in Finnish academic work
2020
This narrative study investigated identity, agency and emotions, amongst an under-researched academic group – those without PhDs with primary responsibility for teaching, who are also expected to do research. In this interview-based paper, we examine the experience of such Finnish academics in a research-intensive university. Thematic and then narrative approaches were employed. The findings demonstrated five narratives which indicated both balanced and tensioned relations as regards academic identity, with variable perceptions of agency and emotions embedded. The study contributes in two ways: first, it adds to the little that is known of the experiences of the aforementioned under-researc…
Negotiating professional identity: Vocational teachers’ personal strategies in a reform context
2008
Recent studies of learning through work have included how professional identities are formed through participation in work. However, we need a more elaborated understanding of how professional identities are negotiated at times of rapid change in working practices. This chapter examines the personal strategies that vocational teachers adopt, and the professional identity negotiations that occur, in response to requirements to change professional practices. We report on a study in which open-ended narrative interviews were conducted with sixteen Finnish vocational teachers. From the teachers’ accounts, we identified distinct personal strategies that were adopted to engage with change. The st…
Agency-centred coupling — a better way to manage an educational organization?
2014
Teachers at the present time face continuous changes in their work and organizational practices. However, we lack empirical evidence as to what this implies for teachers and their work. This paper describes how two Finnish educational organizations restrict or enable teachers’ professional agency, in terms of how the teachers influence the conditions and contents of their work. The paper further addresses how agency is related to: (i) organizational and educational transformations, (ii) teachers’ professional development and identity negotiations and (iii) teachers’ commitment to the educational organization and well-being at work. This paper provides the comparative research evidence on bo…
Teacher and student teacher views of agency in feedback
2022
The present study compares the feedback themes that groups of teachers (n = 5) and student teachers (n = 15) discussed in a professional development programme concerning teachers’ classroom interaction and formative assessment, and the agents they assigned the feedback to. The results of the thematic analysis show little variation with the conversation themes between the groups, but they did show more with the appointed agents of feedback themes. The teachers assigned feedback themes to the teacher and the students, as student teachers assigned them to the teacher and the learning environment. By referring to feedback as the shared responsibility of the teacher and students, the teachers de…