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dc.contributor.authorVarpanen, Jan
dc.contributor.authorLaherto, Antti
dc.contributor.authorHilppö, Jaakko
dc.contributor.authorUkkonen-Mikkola, Tuulikki
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-15T06:22:46Z
dc.date.available2022-03-15T06:22:46Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationVarpanen, J., Laherto, A., Hilppö, J., & Ukkonen-Mikkola, T. (2022). Teacher Agency and Futures Thinking. <i>Education Sciences</i>, <i>12</i>(3), Article 177. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030177" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030177</a>
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dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/80119
dc.description.abstractProblems encountered in top-down school reforms have repeatedly highlighted the significance of teachers’ agency in educational change. At the same time, temporality has been identified as a key element in teachers’ agency, with teachers’ beliefs about the future and experiences of the past shaping their agentic orientations. However, research on teachers’ future orientations is typically limited to short-term trajectories, as opposed to long-term visions of education. To address this, we draw on a futures studies perspective to give more explicit attention to teachers’ long-term visions of their work. We argue that the method of future narratives, already well-established in the field of futures studies, is a fruitful methodological framework for studying these long-term visions. In this paper, we first show that the futures studies approach is theoretically compatible with the ecological model of teacher agency. We then outline the method of future narratives to point out the possibilities it offers. Finally, we illustrate our approach with an exploratory analysis of a small set of future narratives where teachers imagine a future workday. Our analysis reveals that the narratives offer a rich view of teachers’ longer-term visions of education, including instances of reflecting on the role of education in relation to broader societal developments. Our study suggests that this novel approach can provide tools for research on teacher agency as well as practical development of teacher education, addressing long-term educational issues and policies.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEducation Sciences
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.othereducational change
dc.subject.othereducational reform
dc.subject.otherchronotope
dc.subject.otherfutures thinking
dc.subject.otherimages of the future
dc.subject.othernarrative inquiry
dc.subject.otherprofessional agency
dc.subject.otherteacher agency
dc.titleTeacher Agency and Futures Thinking
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203151823
dc.contributor.laitosKasvatustieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Educationen
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dc.relation.issn2227-7102
dc.relation.numberinseries3
dc.relation.volume12
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
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dc.relation.doi10.3390/educsci12030177
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