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Individual Agency

Individual Agency is a theoretical construct within the sociology of education that denotes the capacity of a teacher as an autonomous individual to initiate intentional actions, make professional decisions, and effect change within educational contexts, distinguished from collective or structural forms of agency by its focus on personal intentionality, reflexivity, and self-regulated practice.

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725

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What Is Agency?

Mustafa Emirbayer, Ann Mische · American Journal of Sociology · 1998 · 5.8K citations

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Being Human: The Problem of Agency

Ulf Himmelstrand, Margaret S. Archer · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2002 · 1.3K citations

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Agency and communion from the perspective of self versus others.

Andrea E. Abele, Bogdan Wojciszke · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2007 · 1.3K citations

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The role of beliefs in teacher agency

Gert Biesta, Mark Priestley, Sarah Robinson · Teachers and Teaching · 2015 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Agency and learning in the lifecourse: Towards an ecological perspective

Gert Biesta, Michael Tedder · Studies in the Education of Adults · 2007 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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  1. IS
    Ingrid Schoon

    University College London, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 556 citations

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  2. JH
    Jutta Heckhausen

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    4 publications · 234 citations

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  3. GB
    Gert Biesta

    University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    4 publications · 2.5K citations

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  4. QS
    Qi Shen

    Tongji University, China

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  5. MS
    Moin Syed

    University of Minnesota, United States

    3 publications · 775 citations

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Institutions

725

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    14 h-index

    21 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    888 citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    11 h-index

    21 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    560 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    948 citations

  6. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    2.5K citations

  7. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    543 citations

  8. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    2.4K citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 10 publications · 757 citations

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  2. Career Development International

    7 publications · 297 citations

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  3. Journal of Youth Studies

    7 publications · 368 citations

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  4. Human Relations

    6 publications · 587 citations

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  5. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    JEMS · 6 publications · 241 citations

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