Cukurova, Mutlu;
(2025)
Promoting and Protecting
Teacher Agency in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence.
UNESCO Publishing: Paris, France.
Preview |
Text
1149_25_Promoting and Protecting Teacher Agency_Cukurova.pdf - Published Version Download (461kB) | Preview |
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the education landscape, yet its transformative potential will ultimately be defined by the people who design, implement, and mediate its use. Central to this human infrastructure are teachers, whose professional capacities and agency should be foregrounded in any AI integration strategy. Investing in teachers’ professional development, through robust, future-oriented, and contextually grounded initiatives, is thus a critical way to ensure that AI technologies complement, rather than replace, the pedagogical expertise and ethical judgment at the heart of teaching. This position paper is closely aligned with the mandate of the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 (TTF), reflecting the collective perspectives of TTF’s diverse global constituency and reaffirming the imperative to uphold teachers’ agency, dignity, and professional autonomy as technology changes. It sets forth the TTF’s initial position on AI in education and aims to catalyse deeper policy dialogue, collaboration, and the joint construction of guiding principles that acknowledge teachers’ central role in equitable and sustainable education futures.
Type: | Book |
---|---|
Title: | Promoting and Protecting Teacher Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://teachertaskforce.org/sites/default/files/2... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © UNESCO 2025 This publication is available in Open Access under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo). |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212907 |
Archive Staff Only
![]() |
View Item |