Learning To Teach 'Finally':Reclaiming Agency And Its Limits in Teacher Education
Bibliographic record
Abstract
And Its Limits in Teacher EducationIn teaching, professional agency is viewed as the capacity to make evaluations based on what matters to you as a professional, interpret complex problems and bring to bear the 'best resources' available to understand and handle them (Edwards, 2015).The idea of teacher agency is a powerful but often unstated assumption underlying teacher education.Programmes reflect either i) a 'blank subjectivity' -where there is no recognition of the complicated interaction between inner psychic life and outer societal discourses; or, ii) an 'uncomplicated subjectivity' -reinforcing a humanist vision of the self as autonomous and encountering language as a free agent (Parker 1997, p. 2).In both instances, teachers not only remain unaware of historical a priori conditions, which always limit one's thought and action, they never learn to appreciate the intrinsic role of uncertainty and desire in living and teaching.Without such understandings, we argue, the teacher cannot cultivate the capacity to confront seductive and problematic ideological fantasies and dominant discourses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".