While online students may wish to see their teacher on video, there may be practical, pedagogical, affective or political reasons for hesitating. Drawing on my own experiences of online teaching both on a Masters programme and a MOOC (EDCMOOC), the paper raises questions about approaches to teaching, misrepresentation, surveillance and teacher agency. I conclude that though there are problems i...

Due to the recent increase in trade, travel and political and social co-operation, language competence has become a key skill in modern Europe. Great efforts have been made to improve language training at all education levels. Whereas in the past language teaching was mainly related to cultural themes with an emphasis on literature, communicative aspects in everyday international contact situat...

Institutions of Higher Education are beginning to place a greater emphasis on quality teaching and student learning. However, few faculty receive any type of teacher training prior to entering the academy. As a result, faculty development is one likely solution to teacher quality issues. But faculty development is faced with serious shortcomings that impede its ability to improve teacher qualit...

This paper investigates how Japanese lesson study has been modified in the context of U.S., and this modification affected teacher agency based on framework ecological approach proposed by Priestley et al. (2016). There are two major findings. First, adapted U.S. as an effective form professional development which tends to focus a single subject, primarily mathematics. Math-focused significantl...

As increasingly more Chinese kindergarten teachers attend continuing professional development (CPD) based on pedagogies of international early childhood education and care (ECEC), it is imperative to explore how address the well-documented rhetoric/practice dissonance that fail enact what they learn from CPD enhance their everyday practice. We used a workshop English play-based pedagogy as an o...

The issue of the role teacher agency in professional development and school reform has increased significantly over last decade. This article explores multilingual education policy an Islamic Boarding School context how they translated language into their class. Research on within policies been widely conducted public schools many countries, but Indonesia, topic is relatively under-researched. ...

Using notions from logic and economics, we formulate and formalize the notion of rational self-government, in which the agent reflects on its circumstances, abilities, and limitations to rationally guide its own reasoning and internal organization, in addition to its external actions. This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), ARPA Order No. 4976, Amendm...