PhD Candidate Shuo Liu

Project: Professional learning communities and teacher agency in early childhood education.

Supervisors: Professor Jane Page, Dr Laura McFarland, Dr Amelia Church

This PhD project seeks to provide insights into teacher agency in professional learning, focusing on an organisational-based professional learning community in Australia aiming to provide professional growth for early childhood educators. This project views teacher agency as a relational concept and intends to investigate the ways that educators enact their agency within the community. Meanwhile, this project intends to understand professional learning communities through the lens of educators, uncovering the factors that constitute learning communities within the early childhood sector.