Rethinking professional collaboration and agency in a post-pandemic era
Journal of Professional Capital and Community
ISSN: 2056-9548
Article publication date: 29 June 2020
Issue publication date: 25 November 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This paper explores the role of professional collaboration and agency during the global COVID-19 pandemic and possible lessons for the future from the perspective of a teacher, leader and postgraduate researcher.
Design/methodology/approach
This essay explores the complex role of collaboration and agency in responding to the challenges arising during the global COVID-19 pandemic utilizing research as well as the author's lived experience.
Findings
The author finds that through a renewed emphasis on effective professional collaboration and agency, not only are there opportunities to embed lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is also scope to work towards education systems that reflect the complex global socio-political contexts communities may find themselves in and the evolving needs that result from them.
Originality/value
This paper offers insights into the work of teachers and school leaders, the increasing complexity of their roles over time, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering what this might mean for the future.
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Citation
Campbell, P. (2020), "Rethinking professional collaboration and agency in a post-pandemic era", Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Vol. 5 No. 3/4, pp. 337-341. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-06-2020-0033
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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