The effect of teacher agency support, students’ personal perseverance and work experience on student agency in secondary schools with Estonian and Russian instructional language

Erss, Maria; Loogma, Krista; Jõgi, Anna-Liisa

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2024.2314515

Cogent Education

2024

DOI: 10.1080/2331186x.2024.2314515

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The effect of teacher agency support, students’ personal perseverance and work experience on student agency in secondary schools with Estonian and Russian instructional language

Maria Erss,

Krista Loogma,

Anna-Liisa Jõgi

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Conceptualising the Learning of General Upper Secondary Students at Work

Loogma,

Peterson,

Aasa

2024

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The share of general upper secondary students working or having acquired work experience in an authentic work environment in parallel with learning in formal educational settings is expanding. It is therefore important to understand how learning in an authentic work environment and the interrelationships between work and school learning support the development of students. The main aim of this study is to understand and conceptualise the early work experience of students studying at general upper secondary schools. This study applies a phenomenological approach by conducting semi-structured interviews with students who have had work experience in authentic work environments. The main results of this study show that the variety of meaningful skills and competences developed in the work environment is rather great. Mostly, generic competences are learned at work. The incorporation of elements from one practice into the other (work to school or school to work) also occurs. Knowledge learned at school in traditional subjects and in elective courses is applied at work in a few cases. The positive impact of work experience on school studies, however, was reported—better time planning, increased motivation to learn, and increased career awareness.

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Conceptualising the Learning of General Upper Secondary Students at Work

Loogma,

Peterson,

Aasa

2024

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Upper Secondary School Students’ Learning at Work: The Effect on Agency in School

Erss,

Loogma

2025

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In light of the fact that an increasing number of upper secondary school students in Estonia work in parallel with attending school or during school holidays, the purpose of the study was to ascertain whether work experience and the competencies acquired through work are, in combination with other school-related (teacher agency support), personal (resilience, achievement in Estonian language, mathematics and history) and socio-demographic (gender and mother tongue) factors, related to student agency in school. The second aim was to broaden the understanding of what students learn at work. The study used a mixed-methods approach involving a survey of upper secondary students (aged 16–19, N = 3179) in 30 schools followed by qualitative interviews with 18–19-year-old students who have gained work experience (N = 13). The analysis comprises a hierarchical linear regression analysis (N = 1947) and a thematic analysis of the interviews. The results indicate that work experience, perseverance, teacher agency support, male gender and Estonian mother tongue are positively related to agency while various skills learned at work had no relationship and student achievement in history was only relevant before work experience was added to the model. The interviews showed that students develop skills related to, e.g., self-regulation, self-awareness, career-awareness, social skills and self-confidence through work.

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The effect of teacher agency support, students’ personal perseverance and work experience on student agency in secondary schools with Estonian and Russian instructional language

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Conceptualising the Learning of General Upper Secondary Students at Work

Conceptualising the Learning of General Upper Secondary Students at Work

Upper Secondary School Students’ Learning at Work: The Effect on Agency in School

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