Studying Agency in Literacy Teacher Education
A Layered Approach to Positive Discourse Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21175433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Rogers (0000-0002-9163-8581, University of Missouri–St. Louis, corresponding author), Melissa Mosley Wetzel (0000-0002-9472-5357) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-92 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry in Language Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1542-7587 • E-ISSN: 1542-7595 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15427587.2013.753845 |
| OpenAlex | W1988693202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 26 |
Critically oriented forms of discourse analysis have focused largely on oppression and injustice. Signaling a new turn in the field, scholars have called for an analytic focus on moments of liberation and agency, referring to this orientation as “positive discourse analysis” (PDA). In this research, we turn our attention to a case study of agency and leadership in teacher education. We analyze the discursive contours of a workshop designed and presented at an Educating for Change Curriculum Fair by a preservice teacher, whom we refer to as Leslie, about culturally relevant teaching. Arguing that PDA is not a new approach but a shift in analytic focus, we draw on the tools of narrative analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal analysis. This turn toward the “positive” provided us with insight into the discourses processes associated with agency: how Leslie accepts and extends invitations for agency, uses problems to extend learning, uses narratives and counter-narratives and creates multiple storylines for herself and others. We call for further research that considers agency across contexts so that we might be better able to identify agentic stances and deepen such acts
Critical discourse analysis · Curriculum · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Oppression · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Teacher education · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Literacy, Media, and Education · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Mapping the research on language teacher agency
The Construction and Negotiation of Agentive Identity
Language Teacher Agency
Understanding Teacher Candidates’ Engagement with Inquiry-Based Professional Development
Literacy teachers as reflexive agents? Enablers and constraints
Those That Remain
Building Community Among K-8 Teachers Through a University-Educator Network Partnership
Early career English teachers’ professional commitment change
Exploring online readiness in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic
‘Schools don’t teach this way and they should’
Creating equitable spaces for all learners
Preparing Teachers for Culturally Responsive/Relevant Pedagogy (CRP)
Praxis crisis and the trouble with science teacher education for emergent bilingual learners
Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction
Translanguaging, agency, and transpositioning
Multiple Identities, Negotiations, and Agency Across Time and Space
Am I audible? Teacher’s alienation with online teaching
Ethics in critical discourse analysis
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency
Interventionist discourse analysis and organizational change
Preschool teachers and caregivers’ lack of repositioning in response to changed responsibilities in policy documents
Experiences of and preparedness for Intercultural Teacherhood in Higher Education
Teacher agency in times of educational change
Adapting a European standard to assess English foreign language pre-service teachers’ language proficiency in Vietnam
Being and remaining a teacher
Reconstructing a teachers' discourse to build inclusive interactions using positive discourse analysis and a formative intervention program
Appreciative inquiry for physical education and sport pedagogy research
Too good to be true
Teacher agency and language mediation in two Maltese preschool bilingual classrooms
Finding a niche in teaching English in Japan
Native speakerism as a source of agency-related critical incidents
Plurilingualism as agentive resource in L2 teacher identity
Finally, it's all in vain’
Emotions as agency
Sites of struggle
The interconnection between second language teachers’ language assessment literacy and professional agency
Becoming an EFL teacher abroad
A Critical Multicultural Analysis of Underrepresented Figures in Contemporary STEM Picture-Book Biographies for Children (2020–2022)
Should I change myself or not?”
Teacher agency and identity commitment in curricular reform
Chinese inclusive education teachers' agency within temporal-relational contexts
Teacher agency in practiced language policy in higher education in East and Southeast Asia (2010–2025)
Governmental neoliberal teacher professionalism
Facilitating the development of preservice teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge of literacy and agentic identities
Probing the quality of preservice teachers’ pedagogical reasoning & action (PR&A) in internships
From perceived discrepancies to intentional efforts
Teacher agency, positioning, and English language learners
Literacy as a Race, Students as Machines
Resisting and Negotiating Literacy Tasks
A language teacher’s agency in the development of her professional identities
“Things they won't tell you”
Restorying in the Pensieve
Conflicting Discourses of ‘Democracy’ and ‘Equality’
Critical Discourse Analysis in Literacy Education
I Never Explicitly Brought That Up to My Mentor
It’s probably still written by a white person
Intensifying resistance through complexification
Negative Discourse Analysis and utopias of the political
The youths are wiser now
Exploring the dilemmas and their influence on teacher identity development during practicum
The dreamkeepers
Analyzing Multimodal Interaction
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Multimodality
Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds
Discourse and social change
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Narrative Analysis
A Linguistic Approach to Narrative
Through the nominations of principals
Agency as a Form of Discursive Practice. A Classroom Scene Observed
Figured Worlds and Education
Preparing for Culturally Responsive Teaching
Critical Literacy, Digital Literacies, and Common Core State Standards
Working with discourse
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |