FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND FACULTY TRAINING IN UDL. INCLUSIVE TEACHER AGENCY IN THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS

Roberta Rosa

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The literature on Faculty Development has given rise to training initiatives on the professional skills of university teachers. Teacher Agency, recognized as the ability to act and be the protagonist of one's own action as an agent of change, represents the teacher's attitude to produce innovation. The contribution, from a UDL perspective, argues on Inclusive Teacher Agency as a transformative logic in professional development and co-construction of an inclusive academic context.


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