Author

Katja Vähäsantanen

Observed names: Vähäsantanen, K., Vähäsantanen, Katja

Institution: Häme University of Applied Sciences

Observed institutions: Häme University of Applied Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Aalto University

ORCID: 0000-0003-3521-4802

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-3521-4802

OpenAlex ID: A5067462266

What is agency? Conceptualizing professional agency at work

2013 · Anneli Eteläpelto, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Educational Research Review · 1,217

Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities

2014 · Katja Vähäsantanen · Teaching and Teacher Education · 566

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Theoretical and pedagogical perspectives on orchestrating creativity and collaborative learning

2011 · Raija Hämäläinen, Katja Vähäsantanen · Educational Research Review · 240

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How do novice teachers in Finland perceive their professional agency?

2015 · Anneli Eteläpelto, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Teachers and Teaching · 232

Teacher educators' collective professional agency and identity – Transforming marginality to strength

2016 · Päivi Hökkä, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Teaching and Teacher Education · 219

Teachers’ Professional Identity Negotiations in Two Different Work Organisations

2008 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Päivi Hökkä, et al. · Vocations and Learning · 133

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Identity and Agency in Professional Learning

2014 · Anneli Eteläpelto, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Springer international handbooks of education · 132

The power dance in the research interview: manifesting power and powerlessness

2012 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Jaana Saarinen · Qualitative Research · 109

Between school and working life: Vocational teachers’ agency in boundary-crossing settings

2009 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Jaana Saarinen, et al. · International Journal of Educational Research · 106

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Emotions in Learning at Work: a Literature Review

2019 · Päivi Hökkä, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Vocations and Learning · 104

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Finnish and German student teachers’ motivations for choosing teaching as a career. The first application of the FIT-Choice scale in Finland

2019 · Michael Goller, Jani Ursin, et al. · Teaching and Teacher Education · 102

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Vocational teachers in the face of a major educational reform: individual ways of negotiating professional identities

2009 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Anneli Eteläpelto · Journal of Education and Work · 98

Vocational teachers’ pathways in the course of a curriculum reform

2011 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Anneli Eteläpelto · Journal of Curriculum Studies · 83

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Miten käsitteellistää ammatillista toimijuutta työssä?

2014 · Anneli Eteläpelto, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Aikuiskasvatus · 81

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Professional agency in a university context: Academic freedom and fetters

2019 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Susanna Paloniemi, et al. · Teaching and Teacher Education · 70

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A Novel Instrument to Measure the Multidimensional Structure of Professional Agency

2018 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Eija Räikkönen, et al. · Vocations and Learning · 68

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Agency-centred coupling—a better way to manage an educational organization?

2013 · Päivi Hökkä, Katja Vähäsantanen · International Journal of Leadership in Education · 68

Professional Agency, Identity, and Emotions While Leaving One’s Work Organization

2015 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Anneli Eteläpelto · Professions and Professionalism · 63

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Professional agency and its features in supporting teachers’ learning during an in-service education programme

2020 · Merja Kauppinen, Johanna Kainulainen, et al. · European Journal of Teacher Education · 58

Emotionally loaded identity and agency in Finnish academic work

2018 · Jani Ursin, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Journal of Further and Higher Education · 58

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Professional learning and agency in an identity coaching programme

2016 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Päivi Hökkä, et al. · Professional Development in Education · 55

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Professional identity in relation to vocational teachers’ work: an identity-centred approach to professional development

2018 · Katja Vähäsantanen, Raija Hämäläinen · Learning Research and Practice · 49

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Teachers’ professional agency in a centralisation-decentralisation system and a hierarchical cultural context: the case of Hong Kong

2022 · Josephine Lau, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Pedagogy Culture and Society · 48

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Emotional competence at work

2020 · Heini Ikävalko, Päivi Hökkä, et al. · Journal of Organizational Change Management · 47

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The Reciprocal Relationship Between Emotions and Agency in the Workplace

2017 · Päivi Kristiina Hökkä, Katja Vähäsantanen, et al. · Professional and practice-based learning · 44

Works count: 97

Citation count: 4,816

H-index: 33

I10-index: 53