Change Agency as a Way of Promoting Pedagogical Development in Academic Communities: A Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Clavert, Maria; Löfström, Erika; Niemi, Hannele; Nevgi, Anne
Titel	Change Agency as a Way of Promoting Pedagogical Development in Academic Communities: A Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 23 (2018) 8, S. 945-962Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2018.1451321
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Change Agents; Communities of Practice; Organizational Change; Educational Change; Faculty Development; Higher Education; College Faculty; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community; Organisationswandel; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fakultät; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	In the face of organizational transformations, academics are given a role as informal 'change agents' in their discipline-specific communities of practice (DCoP). Simultaneous participation in pedagogically oriented communities of practice (PCoP) enables them to promote pedagogical development through brokering at community interfaces. This empirical study explores academics' experiences of acting as informal change agents at the interfaces of DCoP and PCoP during an organizational transition phase of three years. The longitudinal data were collected with interviews of 13 academics from the fields of science and technology. The findings reveal a variety of pedagogical development activities related to shared meanings, practices, identities, and ways of belonging. The activities are aligned with the organizational transition process and enabled by collegial support. The findings indicate that lack of supportive formal leadership may terminate the informal development activities. The resulting model of change agency provides a novel approach to pedagogical development in higher education. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01