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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"learner agency"”.
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Teachers Engaging in Action Research to Increase Learner Agency
… in design-based action research to increase learner agency. It is based on the Carnegie Project on Education Doctorate (CPED) framework that includes identifying a problem of practice and engaging in research to address the problem. A problem of practice was identified in this school setting …
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Economically and academically disadvantaged young people striving to be computer literate in Mozambique : unfolding learner agency in constraining conditions
… and academically disadvantaged young learners choose to engage with ICT and what role do they see for computer literacy?" Thus, the purpose of the study is to unfold learner agency in constraining conditions.
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Orientations to text: how classroom discourse affords or denies the enactment of critical literacy and learner agency in an English First Additional Language classroom
… provision since 1994, the opportunities for learners from historically under resourced schools to gain access to powerful English resources remain limited and unequal (Prinsloo 2012), with a dearth of research into how school literacy practices in South Africa might contribute to this lack of …
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He aha kei tua atu o te kohu kawata? What lies beyond the silvery mist? Epistemic agency at the intersection of mātauranga Māori and biological science knowledge worlds
… 2) Mātauranga Māori knowledge, and 3) Epistemic learner agency. The findings from this research have identified how the participants used scientific and cultural knowledge when justifying their position on the 1080 issue. The application of the first two conceptual frameworks established the …
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Agency and Community: Supporting Creative Learning in a Global Online Course
… and play. LCL has been designed in pursuit of learner agency and global community — that is, enabling the pursuit of meaningful, personal learning journeys while also engaging with peers from around the world. This thesis investigates participants’ experiences in the Learning Creative Learning …
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Best of both worlds : issues of structure and agency in computational creation, in and out of school
… two settings. Using a theoretical framework of agency and structure, I analyze how the at-home and school-classroom contexts enable - or constrain - young people's agency in computational creation. Despite common assumptions that at-home learning is necessarily low-structure/high-agency and that …
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An exploration of the teaching and learning opportunities to promote resilience in the primary classroom.
… classroom Cross-curricular links Promoting learner agency Resilience is developed from ‘ordinary rather than extraordinary processes’ (Masten, 2001). Considering that ‘no one is exempt’ (Grotberg, 1995, 5) from adversity, I believe that resilience is an essential life-long skill for young …
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Translanguaging Space in the Academic English Reading Classroom: Chinese MA Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes
… space is a pedagogically constructed, learner-centred space where students draw on diverse meaning-making resources to support learning. While translanguaging has been widely explored in EFL research, less attention has been paid to how Chinese MA students experience and engage with …
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Standards-Based Portfolio Assessment: How To Unveil What Students Authentically Understand
… students and teachers. There is an increase in learner agency in which students take a greater sense of ownership about their own learning. Student responsibility increases when they are held to a higher level of accountability. This study focused on the use of Portfolio Assessment by high …
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Developing 'A Personal Knowing' : A Grounded Theory Study
… to learning and teaching in which individual learner agency is maintained, and the key role of group reflection in assimilating the plurality of knowledge forms that ultimately constitute an individual’s personal theory of practice.<br/>
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Enabling young composers through the Vermont MIDI Project: Composition, verbalization and communication
… composition visible for researchers. Developing learner agency was an explicit value and key motivating factor for all participants. There are reciprocally supportive relationships among members of the focal triads in this study. The mutual support the participants provide each other helps …
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The perceptions and experiences of a selected group of classical guitar learners and teachers in the Cape Peninsula
… This study explores how secondary school learners perceive and understand classical guitar. Using a constructivist vision of learning, learners' experiences and perceptions were collected to inform teaching practices. Constructivism is a theory of knowledge that has been used extensively …
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An investigation into the relationship between design approaches, student engagement and agency in a blended learning computer science course
Disengagement among learners in tertiary Computer Science (CS) courses, particularly those focusing on algorithmic design, poses challenges to the achievement of learning outcomes. This study explores the relationship between learning design approaches, meaningful learner engagement, and agency in …
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Addressing Skills Gap: A Systemic Reframe and Redesign of Capstone using Design-Based Research
… considerations for design to support learner agency, autonomy, and development. Although the context of this research was business education in a post-secondary institution focused on applied learning, the insights gained are of interdisciplinary relevance and anchored in social …
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Enhancing Engagement in Online Business Learning: Exploring the Role and Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Dialogic Pedagogy
… (EMBA) programs designed for adult learners. Grounded in Bakhtin’s dialogic theory and Wegerif’s notion of dialogic space, this study examines how dialogic pedagogy can be reimagined in asynchronous, digitally mediated learning environments. A central innovation is the use of …
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Agency as dynamic and rhizomatic: An exploration of learner identities in two secondary classrooms
… to lay a foundation for lifelong learning. Learner agency is embedded in a dispositional view of these competencies but there is a paucity of research from a poststructural perspective in this area from New Zealand. Agency is also fundamental to a sociocultural conception of assessment for …
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English language learner autonomy in the Vietnamese higher education context: enabling factors and barriers arising from assessment practice
Learner autonomy has gained particular attention in Vietnamese higher education since a major education reform launched in 2005. Although a number of studies have been conducted to investigate the concept in the Vietnamese higher education context, most of them have focused on exploring teachers’ …
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The rhetoric of participation: student voice initiatives in a college of further education - a case study.
… will investigate notions of social capital, learner agency and empowerment which are all affected by possible institutionalised domination which could impinge on the ability of the students to ‘find their voice’ and enact real change. The objectives of this research project will be to note if …
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Tapping the Voices of Learners for Authentic Student Engagement
… from the perceptions of secondary school learners as they proceed throughout their educational experience. According to researchers, learners who are engaged—meaning those who are committed and connected in active relationships with teachers, other learners, the learning environment, …