Facilitating agency: the change laboratory as an intervention for collaborative sustainable development in higher education
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2018-06-06Subjects
cultural-historical activity theoryacademic development
Subject Categories::X342 Academic studies in Higher Education
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To cope with the rapidly changing higher education climate, teachers need agency to act proactively in initiating and steering changes in practice. This paper describes an academic development activity in the form of a Change Laboratory, an intervention method based on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, to facilitate agency among teachers. The results of the study indicate that transformative agency emerges when teachers are given the opportunity to analyse, envision, and redesign their practice collaboratively. This has implications for academic development, suggesting that activities facilitating discussion, analysis, and criticism of current practices are needed to support the development of agency.Citation
Englund C, Price L (2018) 'Facilitating agency: the change laboratory as an intervention for collaborative sustainable development in higher education', International Journal for Academic Development, 23 (3), pp.192-205.Publisher
RoutledgeAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1360144X.2018.1478837Type
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enISSN
1360-144XEISSN
1470-1324ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/1360144X.2018.1478837
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