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Professional Identity, Expertise, and Agency

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We will end this course with a video on
professional identity expertise and agency.

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We consider the changes taking place in our
education systems so dramatic, that they are

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radically affecting how educational
professionals are conceiving who they are and what

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they do, what they must be capable
of, and how they must be acting.

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For this purpose, we must know more
about the concepts of professional

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identity, expertise and agency,
and use them as tools to direct and

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guide educational
professionals' development.

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Leading the development processes of
communities and their members, is the fundamental

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task and role of all educational
leaders as pedagogical leaders.

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As presented in slides 29, 30 and 31

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we define professional identity 
expertise, and agency as follows.

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Let's handle with professional
identity and slide 29 first.

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Professional identity refers to one's
perception of oneself as a professional actor,

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how one understands him or herself in
relation to work and professionality,

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and how one would like to become
in his or her work and profession.

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Identity is a dynamic and consistently
negotiable conception of ourselves.

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Today, we think that identity is fragmented,
consistently changing and irregular.

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In addition, we believe that all educational
professionals' identity in Finland is in

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a heavy negotiation today and will
be transformed in fundamental ways.

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Professional expertise, as presented in
slide 30, refers to the special knowledge,

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skills and judgement
educational professionals need.

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As the professional identities transform,
we believe that as the consequence,

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also, the professional
expertise must transform.

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If we succeed in this transformation,
developed expertise will allow our educational

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professionals to conduct their tasks
more effectively and more efficiently.

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This in turn, will create
better occupational welfare.

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As described in slide 31, professional
agency refers to the initiation of actions

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based on intentional choices and to
exercise control of these actions.

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Once agency relies on the past, takes
place in the present and has a future

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orientation, agency is a process where
different capacities and resources

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are used to enable,
control and direct action.

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Hence, agency is dynamic in nature
and capable of reacting to changes.

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We believe that finally it is a question
of how Finnish educational professionals

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enact their agency, what will take
place in education in Finland and how

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we will succeed in meeting the paradigm shift.

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