Teacher Agency by Dr Mark Priestley - ISBN: 9781350536340
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Teachers are agents of change navigating ecosystems. Capacity, culture, structure.
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    208 pages

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    3 September 2026

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Summary

This second edition of Teacher Agency brings new perspectives on teachers as agents of change and development within their professional ecosystems. Centred around an ecological theory of agency, it critically surveys the work that has emerged in this field in the decade since its first edition and how international trends in curriculum policy and teacher development have shaped that landscape.

As well as updating the research that formed the core of its original study…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350536340
ISBN-10:1350536342
Author:Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta, Sarah Robinson, Gert Biesta
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Edition:2nd
Release Date:3 September 2026
Weight:250g
Dimensions:232mm x 156mm x 16mm
About The Author

Dr Mark Priestley

Mark Priestley is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling and the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making.

Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland; NIVOZ Professor for Education at the University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands; and Professorial Fellow for Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Sarah Robinson is Associate Professor Sarah Robinson in Curriculum Development at Centre for Educational Development, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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