Agency and learning in the lifecourse: Towards an ecological perspective
Gert Biesta,Michael Tedder +1 more
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In this paper, a particular notion of agency is used that enables agency to be conceived as something that is achieved, rather than possessed, through the active engagement of individuals with aspects of their contexts-for-action.Abstract:
This paper is a contribution to understanding the relationship between agency and learning in the lifecourse. The contribution is mainly of a theoretical and a conceptual nature in that a particular notion of agency is used that enables agency to be conceived as something that is achieved, rather than possessed, through the active engagement of individuals with aspects of their contexts-for-action. We refer to this as an ecological understanding of agency. On the part of the actor, such engagements are characterised by particular configurations of routine, purpose and judgement. The argument is made that learning about the particular composition of one's agentic orientations and how they play out in one's life can play an important role in the achievement of agency, and that life-narratives, stories about one's life, can be an important vehicle for such learning. We explore the potential of this approach through a discussion of aspects of the learning (auto-) biographies of two participants in the...read more
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The Role of Beliefs in Teacher Agency.
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Teacher Agency : What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
TL;DR: Biesta and Robinson as discussed by the authors propose an alternative view of teacher agency, developing an ecological conceptualisation of agency that emphasises the importance of both agentic capacity and agentic spaces in shaping agency, and moreover views the achievement of agency as a temporal process.
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Acting as Accountable Authors: Creating Interactional Spaces for Agency Work in Teacher Education.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the results of an ethnographically-grounded investigation of agency work among nine pre-service teachers: the main objective is to determine how agency emerges and is constructed in situated discourse practices within the context of a teacher education program embedded in the collective inquiry approach.
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