The role of agency development in colombian teachers' adaptation of the english suggested curriculum for secondary school

Drawing on the concepts of teacher agency and language policy enactment, this qualitative case study reports how three secondary teachers from two state schools in Colombia enacted the National English Suggested Curriculum for Secondary (ESC) (MEN, 2016). Teachers’ trajectories of action were analyz...

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Autor: Valdelamar Gonzalez, Cindy
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad de Córdoba
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional Unicórdoba
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co:ucordoba/6444
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.unicordoba.edu.co/handle/ucordoba/6444
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Agencia docente
Políticas públicas
Enseñanza del inglés
Trayectorias de acción
Teacher agency
EFL language policy
Trajectories of action
Policy actors
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Sumario:Drawing on the concepts of teacher agency and language policy enactment, this qualitative case study reports how three secondary teachers from two state schools in Colombia enacted the National English Suggested Curriculum for Secondary (ESC) (MEN, 2016). Teachers’ trajectories of action were analyzed as these were influential in ESC adaptation. Semi-structured interviews, teachers’ narratives and lesson observations were used as data sources. By adapting Priestly et al. (2015) ecological model of agency as a reference framework, I situated teachers’ actions within projective, iterational and practical evaluative dimensions of agency. Rather than evaluating the effectiveness or ineffectiveness in ESC adaptation, the current study provides insight into the agentic moves made by the participant teachers, presenting their own teaching frameworks for action. In this study, I provide additional dimensions, which emerged from the analysis and can help to expand theoretical and empirical knowledge in the field of teacher agency.