Exploring Student Agency Across Multiple Perspectives

• In Event: Advances in Learning Environments Research

Abstract

It is critical to listen to teachers and students about their experiences of agency in learning environments given today's highly politicalized neoliberal contexts. A vital next step in advancing more equitable learning environments in schools is understanding how to support students’ agency. This research provides insight into multiple perspectives of student agency from those who experience it daily in classrooms-students and their teachers. The current proposal examines teachers’ and student perspectives of agency in literacy contexts across one school district in the Pacific Northwest in the United States utilizing interviews and a psychometrically sound survey instrument of agency.

Author

• Margaret Vaughn, Washington State University