Abstract
The first part of the book examined theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches, while this second part explores how they are resolved in data-based research. In this chapter, the author explores an approach to sustaining professional agency and self-empowerment in this context of neoliberal reform that builds on the recent focus on language teaching as a matter of the formation, development and deployment of a teacher identity
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The applied linguistic individual |
| Subtitle of host publication | Sociocultural approaches to autonomy, agency, and identity |
| Editors | Phil Benson, Lucy Cooker |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 164-177 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781781790694 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781908049391 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |