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Teachers’ agency during the Covid-19 lockdown: A new materialist perspective




TekijätHeikkilä Mirva, Mankki Ville

KustantajaRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Julkaisuvuosi2023

JournalPedagogy, Culture and Society

Vuosikerta31

Numero5

Aloitussivu989

Lopetussivu1004

ISSN1468-1366

eISSN1747-5104

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2021.1984285

Verkko-osoitehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681366.2021.1984285

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/67465846


Tiivistelmä

Teachers’ agency is an essential factor in understanding and developing pedagogics. The study adds to the previous research by employing a new materialist perspective, highlighting the notion that teachers’ agency is not merely a matter of humans, but results from assemblages of both human and nonhuman elements in teaching. The context of the study is the school lockdown period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Twenty Finnish primary teachers were interviewed to explore how teachers verbalised the rapid transition to a distance teaching environment and to discern what kind of agency that transition unfolds. The findings illustrate lost agency, but simultaneously, new forms of agency emerging from the entanglement of humans and materiality in the changed assemblages. This understanding helps to support both preservice and in-service teachers’ agency in ways that acknowledge the complexity of teacher learning beyond individualistic and controllable views in increasingly multifaceted teaching environments.


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