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Agency at Work

An Agentic Perspective on Professional Learning and Development

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Editors:
  1. Michael Goller

    1. University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

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  2. Susanna Paloniemi

    1. University of Jyväskylä , Jyväskylä, Finland

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  • Clarifies the theoretical discussions on agency in work contexts
  • Provides an overview over the current methodological approaches
  • Integrates a range of different concepts related to work agency

Part of the book series: Professional and Practice-based Learning (PPBL, volume 20)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Agency at Work, Learning and Professional Development: An Introduction

    • Michael Goller, Susanna Paloniemi
    Pages 1-14

  3. Conceptual and Theoretical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Bounded Agency in Professional Lives

      • Karen Evans
      Pages 17-36

    3. Intrapreneurship Competence as a Manifestation of Work Agency: A Systematic Literature Review

      • Michaela Wiethe-Körprich, Susanne Weber, Sandra Bley, Christine Kreuzer
      Pages 37-65

    4. Three Aspects of Epistemological Agency: The Socio-personal Construction of Work-Learning

      • Raymond Smith
      Pages 67-84

    5. Human Agency at Work: Towards a Clarification and Operationalisation of the Concept

      • Michael Goller, Christian Harteis
      Pages 85-103

    6. Expanding the Notion of Agency: Introducing Grit as an Additional Facet of Agency

      • Hye Won Kwon
      Pages 105-120

    7. Agency, Learning and Knowledge Work: Epistemic Dilemmas in Professional Practices

      • Nick Hopwood
      Pages 121-140

    8. Proactive Employees: The Relationship Between Work-Related Reflection and Innovative Work Behaviour

      • Gerhard Messmann, Regina H. Mulder
      Pages 141-159

    9. The Reciprocal Relationship Between Emotions and Agency in the Workplace

      • Päivi Kristiina Hökkä, Katja Vähäsantanen, Susanna Paloniemi, Anneli Eteläpelto
      Pages 161-181

    10. Emerging Conceptualisations on Professional Agency and Learning

      • Anneli Eteläpelto
      Pages 183-201

  4. Empirical and Methodological Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Individuals’ Mediation of Learning Professional Practice: Co-working and Learning to Prescribe

      • Stephen Billett, Christy Noble
      Pages 205-227

    3. 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

    4. Professional Agency and Creativity in Information Technology Work

      • Kaija Collin, Soila Lemmetty, Sanna Herranen, Susanna Paloniemi, Tommi Auvinen, Elina Riivari
      Pages 249-270

    5. Learning Occupational Practice in the Absence of Expert Guidance: The Agentic Action of Australian Home Care Workers

      • Debra Palesy, Stephen Billett
      Pages 271-289

    6. Professional Virtues and Agency at Work: An Ethnography of Software Developers

      • Mira Ylén
      Pages 291-310

    7. Researching Teachers’ Agentic Orientations to Educational Change in Finnish Schools

      • Antti Rajala, Kristiina Kumpulainen
      Pages 311-329

    8. Transformative Agency and the Development of Knotworking in Building Design

      • Hannele Kerosuo
      Pages 331-349
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About this book

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.

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“This book will provide food for thought for researchers with interests in agency, workplace learning and career development.” (Xiaolei Ruan, The Asian EFL Journal, Vol. 24 (1), January, 2020)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Michael Goller

  • University of Jyväskylä , Jyväskylä, Finland

    Susanna Paloniemi

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