De/Reterritorialization of Teacher Agency: From Global Top to the Local Curriculum

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 8:00 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Posthumanism, Teachers, and Teacher Education (Table 6)

Abstract

Education studies focusing on the notion of teacher agency have increased since the mid-2010. At the practical level, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the most prominent institutions that began to center teacher agency as an imperative teacher competency throughout their disputed Future of Education and Skills 2030 project (Education 2030). In this regards, I am interested in how this foreign notion, teacher agency, has been decontextualized from an international organization and recontextualized in the recent Korean 2022 national curriculum reform. Three universalizing discursivities behind Education 2030' teacher agency are discussed: progressive temporality, universalities, and Anthropocentric subjectivity. Additionally, I discuss the local resistance and how they are resolved by a closed view of democracy.

Author

• Jonggeun Park, Teachers College, Columbia University