We consider the politics of structural choice to examine how American states govern the teaching profession. Since the 1970s, nearly all states have adopted professional standards boards to regulate the licensing and certification of public school teachers. These boards vary in their composition, powers, and relationship to other government institutions. Some boards possess much autonomy and au...

Online teacher education is of growing interest and so is the study of motivation as a key factor in technology-mediated learning environments. This study is based on a pre-service language teacher education programme in Patagonia, a southern Argentinian region with no face-to-face training offers, limited Internet access and a large number of unqualified teachers. Our goal is to broaden the un...

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between teachers' professional autonomy and motivation levels. sample research, which was conducted using correlational survey design, consists 282 teachers working across Turkey in 2021-2022 academic year who were sampled by disproportionate cluster sampling method. “Teacher Autonomy Scale'' Vocational Motivation Scale” used as data colle...

ABSTRACT Many authors argue that autonomy is nonexistent in a centralized education system, given it characteristic of decentralization, whereas schools decentralized system have more autonomy. The researchers compare the level curriculum granted to (Portugal) and those (Canada), based on interviews content analysis responsible for administration organization schools. It appears that, Portugues...

Abstract This chapter approaches the policy-practice nexus by scrutinizing relationship between teacher agency and professional autonomy. Teacher has usually been researched from two different perspectives. On one side, scholars are concerned with questions of autonomy vis-à-vis specific accountability regimes, apply, in broadest sense, a governance framework. other, there is more normatively g...