Project Details
Description
This project investigates the enactment of teacher agency with technology for teaching and learning. Teacher agency is an individual teacher’s power to act, and the actions and decisions they take within their own context. Research identifies both teacher agency and technology as factors in educational transformation and improvement but previously has not linked them systematically or elaborated their potential when combined. Our transformational view of teacher agency with technology sees teachers as experts with agency and judgement. Through this work we aim to develop a model of teacher agency that we can share and test with colleagues throughout the UK.
Our research addresses how teachers conceptualise their current agency with technology (enactment); teachers’ aspirations for agency with technology (what it might be); the extent to which different technologies invite teachers’ agency (what is possible); and the role technology can play in developing teachers’ agency (enhancement). Our approach challenges and extends the theorisation of ‘technology integration’ in schools, preferring instead a perspective of ‘technology adaptation’ (Bozkurt, 2020).
Our research addresses how teachers conceptualise their current agency with technology (enactment); teachers’ aspirations for agency with technology (what it might be); the extent to which different technologies invite teachers’ agency (what is possible); and the role technology can play in developing teachers’ agency (enhancement). Our approach challenges and extends the theorisation of ‘technology integration’ in schools, preferring instead a perspective of ‘technology adaptation’ (Bozkurt, 2020).
Layman's description
This project looks at how and why teachers use technology (EdTech). We take a place-based approach to build a new model for understanding teachers’ agency with technology in context.
Our model will help educators in primary and secondary schools, and aid researchers and policy makers across the UK.
Our model will help educators in primary and secondary schools, and aid researchers and policy makers across the UK.
Acronym | ETAT |
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Status | Active |
Effective start/end date | 1/07/00 → 1/11/25 |
Links | https://etat.uea.ac.uk/ |