... © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Equity Teacher agency Literacy education Student agency Collective agency Integrative critical literature review As an enduring construct in educational research, agency...

...Stephanie Anne Shelton; Shelly Melchior Purpose This paper aims to examine how two White teachers, experienced and award-winning veteran educators, navigated issues of race, class and privilege in their instruction, and ways that their efforts and shortcomings shaped both teacher agency...

... teacher agency to produce instructional changes that support multilingual learners. Originality/value PD can play a key role in transforming literacy instruction for multilingual learners. Teacher agency, including the decisions teachers make about how to engage with professional learning...

... preparing students for writing tests on state assessments, less frequently relied on the language of finding meaning in the learning. Originality/value This paper builds on studies of ELA teacher agency through the development of methodology related to an ecological model of agency and Bakhtinian...

... generative than others. Originality/value This paper addresses a gap in the research literature by illuminating contexts, consequences and conundrums of ELA teacher agency. The authors documented the range of structural, cultural and material conditions within which teachers exercise agency...

... documented (Goodwyn et al., 2014 ; Goodwyn et al., 2016 ; Goodwyn et al., 2018d). Taking England as the example and in summary, the sequence was: Educational policy English teaching Teacher agency History of English Adaptive agency It is not the strongest...

... 28 06 2019 29 06 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Professional development English teaching Teacher agency Reform ownership High-quality professional development (PD) has been well-documented...

... agency to both “see” and “sell” (Nowacek, 2011) possibilities for implementing twenty-first century writing instruction in her first teaching context. Originality/value While most existing literature on teacher agency focuses on practicing teachers, this paper focuses on activating agency during...

...Laura A. Taylor Purpose By recognizing high-stakes testing as a key constraint to teacher agency, this paper aims to provide a close analysis of one teacher’s testing narrative to illustrate how emerging positioning is relative to high-stakes testing shapes perception of pedagogical agency...