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The Role of Agency: Teachers, Administrators, and Caregivers Navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), SIG Virtual Rooms, SIG-Educational Change Virtual Roundtable Session Room

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to re-examine systems within education and the way that various players within each system interact. Findings from our interview study illuminate the ways that the pandemic shaped the experiences that teachers, school and district administrators, and caregivers had with enacting agency. While many encountered barriers to enacting agency that ranged from experiences of decreased power to direct encounters with racism, others found opportunity within the pandemic to enact agency and operate within the system of education in new ways. The opportunities and barriers to agency presented here illuminate important opportunities for educational change moving forward, both on an individual and systems level.

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