EFL teachers’ agency in Chinese universities against the backdrop of “Curriculum Ideology and Politics”—an ecological perspective

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Cyhoeddwyd yn:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications vol. 12, no. 1 (Dec 2025), p. 1178
Prif Awdur: Zhang, Tingqun
Awduron Eraill: Wang, Yuhong, Jiang, Zhanhao
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Springer Nature B.V.
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100 1 |a Zhang, Tingqun  |u Bozhou University, Department of Foreign Languages, Bozhou, China 
245 1 |a EFL teachers’ agency in Chinese universities against the backdrop of “Curriculum Ideology and Politics”—an ecological perspective 
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520 3 |a As a language education policy, Curriculum Ideology and Politics (CIP) has constructed an ecological environment for teacher agency. From the ecological perspective, this study explores the manifestations of and influencing factors in university EFL teachers’ agency through policy analysis, interviews, classroom observations, and reflective journals. The study finds: (1) In the spatial dimension, the macrosystem exhibits a clear ideological tendency but teacher agency is positive and active; the exosystem indirectly promotes teacher agency and acts as a mediating tool; the mesosystem limits or even suppresses teacher agency; within the microsystem, teachers implement the policies in their own teaching styles but often lack sufficient scaffolding. (2) In the temporal dimension, the practical-evaluative system shows the most evident teacher agency, while the iterative and projective systems show relatively less evident teacher agency. The interaction of the spatial and temporal dimensions jointly constructs teacher agency. The study suggests that the implementation of CIP requires the introduction of third-party forces and greater active roles to be played by intermediate institutions. 
651 4 |a China 
653 |a Language 
653 |a Teaching 
653 |a Education reform 
653 |a Grammatical aspect 
653 |a Ideology 
653 |a English teachers 
653 |a Poststructuralism 
653 |a Curricula 
653 |a Politics 
653 |a Higher education 
653 |a Education policy 
653 |a Foreign language learning 
653 |a Human agency 
653 |a Second language teachers 
653 |a Language teachers 
653 |a Language ideologies 
653 |a Chinese languages 
653 |a Teachers 
653 |a English as a second language instruction 
653 |a Roles 
653 |a Instructional scaffolding 
653 |a Policy analysis 
653 |a College faculty 
653 |a Classroom observation 
653 |a Time 
653 |a Classrooms 
700 1 |a Wang, Yuhong  |u Zhengzhou University, School of International Studies, Zhengzhou, China (GRID:grid.207374.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2189 3846) 
700 1 |a Jiang, Zhanhao  |u Southeast University, School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.263826.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 1761 0489) 
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