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Understanding the Transformative Power of Teacher and Student Agency in Changing Educational Contexts

Fri, April 13, 4:05 to 5:35pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Second Floor, Sutton Center

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium contributes to understanding the meaning and transformative power of teacher and student agency in changing educational contexts in the US, Israel and Finland. Whereas, researching structure-agency dialectic in education is not new, less attention has been given to the expansive approach in making sense of how agency also frames opportunities for new structures of being and learning among teachers and students. Agency refers to the opportunity, will and skill to act upon and transform activities and circumstances. Altogether, this symposium advances present day understanding on how teacher and student agency operates in various educational contexts in situ and overtime, also giving rise to new structures within which learning and teaching can occur on more equal and productive grounds.

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