Teachers’ professional lives and their role in change efforts have always been central to the Journal of Educational Change. Articles have addressed teachers’ motivation for and commitment to reform, their belief systems, their professionalism, their networks, and their professional development, among other topics. Unequivocally, teachers are central to educational change. In this article, I will reflect upon my own work over the past 20 + years as a lens through which to examine this topic, and drawing out implications for research, policy, and practice. The common threads across this work include issues of agency, power, and social justice that have influenced the role of teachers in various waves of reform. I discuss teacher agency in reforms ranging from bottom-up change efforts to externally developed comprehensive school reform models and those that rely on teacher collaboration and participation as research partners.

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教师在教育改革中的作用：20 年展望

教师的职业生涯及其在变革努力中的作用一直是《教育变革杂志》的核心。文章讨论了教师改革的动机和承诺、他们的信仰体系、他们的专业精神、他们的网络和他们的专业发展等主题。毫无疑问，教师是教育变革的核心。在本文中，我将反思自己过去 20 多年的工作，以此作为审视该主题的镜头，并得出对研究、政策和实践的影响。这项工作的共同点包括影响教师在各种改革浪潮中的作用的代理、权力和社会正义问题。