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Teacher agency: an ecological approach

Journal of Education for Teaching, 2016
In my experience, the role of the teacher is often seen as that of an individual, separated from colleagues.
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New Spaces for Agency in Doctoral Education: An Ecological Approach

2023
Doctoral education was traditionally understood as a socialisation process through which PhD researchers become part of their relevant disciplinary communities by learning, adopting, and contributing to the knowledge-creation practices in their field: the PhD as training for academia.
Inouye, Kelsey, Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, Søren   +1 more
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Teacher agency. An ecological approach

Pastoral Care in Education, 2017
Priestly, Biesta and Robinson set out a strong proposition in their book, for both academics and practitioners, of the imperative to look more closely at the role of teacher agency.
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Decisicion Making through the Angle of the Ecological Model of Agency

2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2020
Decision making is not a trivial task and its effectiveness depends on the quality of the thinking processes. We argue that the decision making process could be more effective if the decision is made as a result of systematic thinking according to a theoretical model of agency.
Margus Pedaste, Äli Leijen
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Ecological subjectivities, responsibilities, and agency

2015
This Chapter argues for the centrality of ontological questions to analyses of climate change scepticism: questions about ‘who do we think we are?’, uttered provocatively and insistently to contest widespread presumptuous actions in the affluent world that attest to blithe assumptions that ‘we’ are entitled to consume and pollute as we will.
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Values define agency: Ecological and enactive perspectives reconsidered

Adaptive Behavior, 2022
This article offers an exploration of agency and its place in the natural order, one marked by meaning and value. Three examples of agency at different scales—human, bacterial, and thermodynamic—are presented, which reveal insights into the nature of agency itself, while also illustrating the range of phenomena that theoretical accounts need to address.
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Creative Agency / Creative Ecologies

2018
Harris reviews how their recent research has led to the establishment of Creative Agency, an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Creative Agency is what Barad has described as the kind of creative intra-action (“the mutual constitution of entangled agencies,” [Meeting the universe halfway ...
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Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy

Contemporary Political Theory, 2021
Agency and representation are viewed as preconditions for democratic action. The dominant understanding of agency and representation is defined in terms of certain capacities and abilities that are considered to constitute the basis of personhood. The article will put into question this understanding and the assumptions that underpin it and argue that ...
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Trees and Ecological Agency in Scandinavia

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Trees are increasingly emerging as lively beings in forest management in Scandinavia. Based on anthropological fieldwork and archival research in the three Scandinavian countries, I examine human encounters with trees and their ‘will to grow’ with a view to discuss the ethical dilemmas involved in the recognition of the ecological agency of trees ...
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Toward an Ecological Approach to Agency

2019
In this chapter, I offer a sketch of some key aspects that should be taken into account for proposing a theory of agency based on the main contributions of the ecological approach. In this sense, the conclusions of this chapter are far from offering a full-blown approach to agency from an ecological standpoint; I simply aim to provide some ideas and ...
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