Understanding Teacher Agency in Practice: An Ecological Approach

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210525.080How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Teacher Agency, Ecological approach, Agency achievement

Abstract

This paper introduces concepts of teacher agency in the ecological approach which emphasized an interplay between teachers’ capacity and their engagement with the professional environment. The ecological approach provides a model of understanding the ecological contexts of teachers’ actions, how the agency is shaped and achieved. This is a timely matter as the agency has been conceptualized variedly in literature. Considering the heavy-pressured of the top-down policy in the Indonesian educational system, teachers as agents of change are expected to exercise their agentive role in educational improvement. The ecological approach enables an examination of not only the teaches’ capacity but also their thorough ecological dimensions, thus it would better inform educational institutions and teacher educators about ways to support the achievement of teacher agency.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Santi Farmasari
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/26
TI  - Understanding Teacher Agency in Practice: An Ecological Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Education and Social Science (ACCESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 224
EP  - 229
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210525.080
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