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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Student agency."”.
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Negotiating spaces: Student agency in writer’s workshop
… The purpose of this study was to investigate how student agency is conceptualized and enacted in writer’s workshop classrooms. Context. This study was conducted in a diverse middle school in a small urban area. The two sixth grade classrooms were taught by a teacher with five years of experience. …
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Student agency in collaborative writing: A sociocognitive perspective
… the best of my knowledge investigated learners’ student agency using Bandura’s (1989, 2001, 2006) four human agentic characteristics. Moreover, while some researchers (Blin & Appel, 2011; Yu & Lee, 2015) have attempted to explain the complexity of collaborative writing using Engeström’s (1987, …
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Agents of Agency: Identifying Teacher Traits and Trainings Associated with Promoting Student Agency
… from the traditional metric of test scores to “student agency,” defined as a learner's capacity to access power, make decisions, and take ownership of their learning process. While the literature on student agency provides ample qualitative insights, it is largely composed of small-scale …
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Supporting epistemic justice through institutional student agency: district leaders’ conceptions of shared power
… the possibility that supporting institutional student agency beyond the classroom setting can lead to authentic power sharing and build more equitable systems, particularly for historically marginalized students in K-12 public education. This study sought to understand the potential for and …
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A Moving Imagination in Spaces of Distress: Teacher and Student Agency in a Science Classroom
… the ways in which our classroom community (students and teacher) engaged with humanizing pedagogy in a seventh grade science classroom, toward the full development (e.g. personal, social, emotional, academic) of our classroom community, and the dismantling of inequitable practices and unjust …
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Structural conditioning and mediation by student agency : a case study of success in chemical engineerng design
The study, informed by Bhaskar’s realist philosophy for social science, seeks to provide an explanation for the differential success rates in a final year chemical engineering design course.
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Nurturing Excellence: A Case Study of High School Learning Environments for the Gifted
… leadership of programming that maximizes their agency, curiosity, and confidence. Such programming should be fully modern in its conception and allow gifted high school students to construct and share products of their learning with respect to issues of global importance. The purpose of this …
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GATEKEEPERS TO THE THIRD SPACE: AUTHORITY, AGENCY, AND LANGUAGE HIERARCHY IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
… conference interactions between multilingual students and first-year composition instructors in order to understand the co-construction of instructor authority and student agency in discussions of academic writing. Multilingual approaches to first-year writing assert that inviting students’ …
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A Social Realist Case Study of Knowledge and Pedagogy in the First Two Years of Electrical Engineering Education
… which are difficult to teach and learn. Often students do not gain abstract knowledge but rote-learn isolated facts instead; and rather than develop the capability to reason using abstract knowledge, they rely on knowing how to use mathematical formulae and procedure. Our modern society however …
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Beyond the binary: exploring participation in gender-inclusive PE through student and teacher lenses in grade 9
… impact of a gender-inclusive class structure on student engagement in Grade 9 physical education (PE) within a Canadian Secondary School. Employing a mixed methods case study approach, data was collected through student surveys and semi-structured teacher interviews. Findings reveal that …
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Science Youth Action Research: Promoting Critical Science Literacy Through Relevance and Agency
… curriculum designed to emphasize relevance and agency to promote youth's science learning. In Sci-YAR, youth conduct action research projects to better understand science-related issues in their lives, schools, or communities, while they simultaneously document, analyze, and reflect upon their …
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Responsive Classroom Ecologies: Supporting Student Inquiry And Rhetorical Awareness In College Writing Courses
… and learning strategies and their impact on students' preparation for future learning. I explore relevant scholarship on knowledge transfer, classroom ecologies, and student agency to set the stage for a discussion of several pedagogical strategies implemented to support students' development …
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Using Inquiry Learning to Shift Towards a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Elementary Social Studies
… “erased the histories and experiences” (p. 7) of students of color. This study addresses the question of how white teachers who teach students of color can use inquiry learning to shift traditional elementary social studies instructional practices towards a more culturally sustaining pedagogy. …
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Cultivating adaptive expertise in the introductory physics laboratory
… physics labs are promising spaces for students to develop their abilities to creatively and independently solve research problems. However, many introductory labs focus their efforts on using experiments to demonstrate concepts from lecture, sacrificing student agency to ensure that lab …
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Teaching creative music: A case-study and action research examination of practices in creative music making
… agree that creative music making can facilitate student agency development, increase a sense of belonging and foster creative expression. Creative music making allows students to bring their perspectives to the learning context through their own creations and explorations. In my own teaching …
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PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN
… Japan. Based upon findings from a group of students at an international University, I develop new modes of thinking about people and their use of Internet capable devices by exploring the paradoxes present in contemporary literacies. Contextualizing reading and writing within the speech …
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Creating Counternarratives on Trauma Informed Care Through Student Podcasting
… they conducted with a community member. Students held a symposium in which they shared the podcasts with administration and other adult leaders and successfully petitioned the school administration to add after school programs. The research found that YPAR is a culturally responsive way …
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"""Painting the lily"": An examination of 5th grade students' learning experiences in an arts-infused curriculum"
… art-infused curriculum shapes 5th grade students’ learning experiences. The curriculum was re-envisioned to include more critical theoretical approaches to instruction. Particularly, I looked for ways in which social studies and art could be integrated in a more holistic and thematic …
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The Hidden Hand: Systematic Oppression Cloaked as Education
… order and measurable performance, shaping student agency. Using Michel Foucault’s theory of disciplinary power, this analysis examines how attendance requirements, standardized testing mandates, parents’ rights, and schoolwide behavior systems are enacted and understood by educators, …
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