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Integrating Self-Reports and Electrodermal Activity (EDA) Measurement in Studying Emotions in Professional Learning
Studies on emotions in learning have been mostly conducted through self-reporting questionnaires and interviews conducted after the learning situation, which seldom focus on professional workplace learning. Me...
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A Novel Instrument to Measure the Multidimensional Structure of Professional Agency
This study aimed to construct and validate a quantitative measurement instrument to determine the structure of professional agency in working life. Empirical data (N = 589) were collected via a web-based, theoret...
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Collective Agency-Promoting Leadership in Finnish Teacher Education
Globally, there is a political and social consensus that teacher education is a key priority for the twenty-first century. However, studies have so far paid little attention to a crucial issue, namely, leaders...
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Agency and Learning in the Work of Software Professionals
This chapter addresses software professionals’ agency and learning in work characterized by a need for innovative learning and fluency in renewing work practices. The study presented was conducted with softwar...
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Emerging Conceptualisations on Professional Agency and Learning
This chapter provides an evaluative summary of the major contributions from the first section of this book, comprising conceptualisations on professional agency and work-related learning. The evaluation focuse...
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An Agency-Promoting Learning Arena for Develo** Shared Work Practices
Despite the emerging recognition of the pivotal role played by professional agency within work contexts, little is known about how agency is promoted and enacted in organised work-related learning settings. Th...
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The Reciprocal Relationship Between Emotions and Agency in the Workplace
In conjunction with a growing interest in professional agency, there is a need to understand how emotions are embedded in agentic practice. This chapter examines the emotions bound up with work and how these emot...
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Identity and Agency in Professional Learning
This chapter elaborates professional learning from two complementary perspectives, namely professional identity and agency. Starting with the conceptualization of identity and agency, the chapter illustrates h...
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Special Issue Introduction: Creativity and Creative Work in Contemporary Working Contexts
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Constraints and Challenges on Learning and Construction of Identities at Work
This paper analyses and discusses different constraints on workplace learning, vocational development and formation of identity. We ask how the learning and development of vocational identities are related to ...
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Open AccessTeachers’ Professional Identity Negotiations in Two Different Work Organisations
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. ...
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Develo** Subjective Identities Through Collective Participation
This chapter explores the mutually constitutive relationship of the individual and the social context. In the analysis of our empirical data on teacher students we shall ask how individual students were able t...
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From Individual Cognition to Communities of Practice
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Is successful scaffolding an illusion? – Shifting patterns of responsibility and control in teacher-student interaction during a long-term learning project
This study aims to examinethe process of scaffolding in terms ofteachers' and students' discussions, and howtransition from teacher regulation to studentregulation takes place during a learningproject carried ...
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Collaborative processes during report writing of a science learning project: The nature of discourse as a function of task requirements
The aim of this article is to specify how different aspects of task assignments are related to different types of student discourse during the report writing phase of a science learning project. A group of fou...
