Agency at work : an agentic perspective on professional learning and development

✍ Scribed by Goller, Michael; Paloniemi, Susanna

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 485
• Series: Professional and practice-based learning 20
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work. In addition, the book compiles the empirical research that has been generated by various perspectives. The chapters deal with the relationship between (a) agency at work, and (b) professional learning and development. They encompass a wide variety of working life domains and/or contexts, and are based on a broad range of epistemological and theoretical standpoints.

This volume is not only thought to bring together current research, but also to foster the contemporary discourse on workplace agency a few steps further. Although the book strongly focuses on research originating in the field of workplace learning, its contents may be of interest to researchers from other scientific domains, such as socio-cognitive and development psychology, organisational behaviour, leadership, economics, life-course research, and philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Agency at Work, Learning and Professional Development: An Introduction (Michael Goller, Susanna Paloniemi)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Bounded Agency in Professional Lives (Karen Evans)....Pages 17-36
Intrapreneurship Competence as a Manifestation of Work Agency: A Systematic Literature Review (Michaela Wiethe-Körprich, Susanne Weber, Sandra Bley, Christine Kreuzer)....Pages 37-65
Three Aspects of Epistemological Agency: The Socio-personal Construction of Work-Learning (Raymond Smith)....Pages 67-84
Human Agency at Work: Towards a Clarification and Operationalisation of the Concept (Michael Goller, Christian Harteis)....Pages 85-103
Expanding the Notion of Agency: Introducing Grit as an Additional Facet of Agency (Hye Won Kwon)....Pages 105-120
Agency, Learning and Knowledge Work: Epistemic Dilemmas in Professional Practices (Nick Hopwood)....Pages 121-140
Proactive Employees: The Relationship Between Work-Related Reflection and Innovative Work Behaviour (Gerhard Messmann, Regina H. Mulder)....Pages 141-159
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Emotions and Agency in the Workplace (Päivi Kristiina Hökkä, Katja Vähäsantanen, Susanna Paloniemi, Anneli Eteläpelto)....Pages 161-181
Emerging Conceptualisations on Professional Agency and Learning (Anneli Eteläpelto)....Pages 183-201
Front Matter ....Pages 203-203
Individuals’ Mediation of Learning Professional Practice: Co-working and Learning to Prescribe (Stephen Billett, Christy Noble)....Pages 205-227
Working Relationally on Complex Problems: Building Capacity for Joint Agency in New Forms of Work (Anne Edwards, Carmen Montecinos, Jennifer Cádiz, Paloma Jorratt, Lizette Manriquez, Carolina Rojas)....Pages 229-247
Professional Agency and Creativity in Information Technology Work (Kaija Collin, Soila Lemmetty, Sanna Herranen, Susanna Paloniemi, Tommi Auvinen, Elina Riivari)....Pages 249-270
Learning Occupational Practice in the Absence of Expert Guidance: The Agentic Action of Australian Home Care Workers (Debra Palesy, Stephen Billett)....Pages 271-289
Professional Virtues and Agency at Work: An Ethnography of Software Developers (Mira Ylén)....Pages 291-310
Researching Teachers’ Agentic Orientations to Educational Change in Finnish Schools (Antti Rajala, Kristiina Kumpulainen)....Pages 311-329
Transformative Agency and the Development of Knotworking in Building Design (Hannele Kerosuo)....Pages 331-349
An Agency-Promoting Learning Arena for Developing Shared Work Practices (Katja Vähäsantanen, Susanna Paloniemi, Päivi Kristiina Hökkä, Anneli Eteläpelto)....Pages 351-371
Measuring Intrapreneurship Competence as a Manifestation of Work Agency in Different Educational Settings (Christine Kreuzer, Susanne Weber, Sandra Bley, Michaela Wiethe-Körprich)....Pages 373-399
Self-Directedness in Work-Related Learning Processes. Theoretical Perspectives and Development of a Measurement Instrument (Isabel Raemdonck, Jo Thijssen, Maurice de Greef)....Pages 401-423
Proactive Feedback-Seeking, Teaching Performance, and Flourishing Amongst Teachers in an International Primary School (Jade Harwood, Dominik E. Froehlich)....Pages 425-444
Reflections on Empirical and Methodological Accounts of Agency at Work (Crina I. Damşa, Dominik E. Froehlich, Andreas Gegenfurtner)....Pages 445-461
Front Matter ....Pages 463-463
The Multifaceted Nature of Agency and Professional Learning (Susanna Paloniemi, Michael Goller)....Pages 465-478
Back Matter ....Pages 479-484

✦ Subjects

Career development;Agent (Philosophy);BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Skills