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E, Liyuan; Toom, Auli; Sullanmaa, Jenni; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
Professional agency is key for teachers' professional development, for constructing their professional identity, and for promoting student learning. This longitudinal study explored the development of teachers' (N = 201) sense of professional agency in the classroom in the professional transition from early career teachers to more experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Specialists
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Heikonen, Lauri; Pietarinen, Janne; Toom, Auli; Soini, Tiina; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
Teacher education needs to facilitate the development of student teachers' capacity for active and skilful learning in classroom interaction, referred to as sense of professional agency in the classroom. It consists of motivation to learn, self-efficacy beliefs about learning, and strategies promoting one's own and pupils' learning in the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Empowerment, Preservice Teacher Education, Learning Motivation
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Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Soini, Tiina – Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
The study aims to gain a better understanding of the complexity of teacher learning by exploring the elements of teachers' sense of professional agency in the two primary contexts of teachers' work: the professional community and the classroom. Moreover, the relationship with agentic learning in these contexts is studied. A total of 2310 primary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Individual Power, Professional Autonomy
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Saariaho, Emmi; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Toom, Auli; Pietarinen, Janne; Soini, Tiina – Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
Self-regulative learning skills are extremely important contributors in student teacher learning. Also, interest in co-regulation in learning as a facilitator for pupils' self-regulation skills and an ability to learn how to support peers' regulated learning has increased significantly during the past decade. Still, our understanding of student…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Independent Study, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries