@article{ART003273545},
author={Yu, Kyoung-Mi and Park, Yun-Kyoung},
title={Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction},
journal={Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching},
issn={2508-156X},
year={2025},
volume={10},
number={3},
pages={359-381},
doi={10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yu, Kyoung-Mi
AU - Park, Yun-Kyoung
TI - Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction
JO - Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching
PY - 2025
VL - 10
IS - 3
PB - Education Research Institute at CNUE
SP - 359
EP - 381
SN - 2508-156X
AB - This study aims to explore the agency of elementary school teachers in their curriculum restructuring practices from an ecological perspective and to analyze the patterns and contexts within which this agency manifests. To this end, a qualitative case study was conducted with five elementary school teachers who had consistently engaged in curriculum reconstruction practices. The findings show that teachers’ agency developed from routine enactment to creative curriculum operation grounded in educational beliefs, enacted through identity formation, relational positioning, professional learning, and adaptive responses to school culture and policy environments. Analysis using Priestley, Biesta, and Robinson’s (2015) ecological model revealed that past experiences at the iterative level shaped teachers’ educational philosophies and sustained practice; school culture and policy contexts at the practical-evaluative level constrained or enabled agency; and future-oriented visions of student-centered education at the projective level guided the purposes of curriculum restructuring. Overall, teachers’ agency emerged through the dynamic interaction of individual beliefs and expertise with relational and structural conditions. Implications for curriculum restructuring and teacher professional development are discussed. Based on these research findings, implications for curriculum restructuring and teacher professional development are discussed.
KW - curriculum reconstruction;teacher agency;the ecological view of teacher agency;elementary school teachers;qualitative case study
DO - 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
ER -
Yu, Kyoung-Mi and Park, Yun-Kyoung. (2025). Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction. Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching, 10(3), 359-381.
Yu, Kyoung-Mi and Park, Yun-Kyoung. 2025, "Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction", Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching, vol.10, no.3 pp.359-381. Available from: doi:10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
Yu, Kyoung-Mi, Park, Yun-Kyoung "Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction" Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching 10.3 pp.359-381 (2025) : 359.
Yu, Kyoung-Mi, Park, Yun-Kyoung. Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction. 2025; 10(3), 359-381. Available from: doi:10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
Yu, Kyoung-Mi and Park, Yun-Kyoung. "Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction" Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching 10, no.3 (2025) : 359-381.doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
Yu, Kyoung-Mi; Park, Yun-Kyoung. Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction. Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching, 10(3), 359-381. doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
Yu, Kyoung-Mi; Park, Yun-Kyoung. Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction. Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching. 2025; 10(3) 359-381. doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
Yu, Kyoung-Mi, Park, Yun-Kyoung. Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction. 2025; 10(3), 359-381. Available from: doi:10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
Yu, Kyoung-Mi and Park, Yun-Kyoung. "Exploring Teacher Agency in Elementary School Curriculum Reconstruction" Journal of Studies on Schools and Teaching 10, no.3 (2025) : 359-381.doi: 10.23041/jsst.2025.10.3.015
