Learner Agency in the early years

Disscuss:

1. The nature of learner agency

Why is learner agency important

2. The mutually benefical relationship between the learner and their environment in “agentic engagement

3.the role of educator

What is the learner agency?

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What is your ‘image of the child

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Learner Agency &the PYP

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Why is learner agency important?

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What is the reciprocal relationship between the learner and their environment in “agentic engagement ”?

Interrelated aspects of engagement

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Provide Choice

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Is co-constructed with the learners

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“The pre-school child deserves to know why the room is organized the way it is,why there are “choice time “”,and why there are set times for “group meetings”.Relevance begins with the rational for educational choices affecting the school life of the student ”-Heidi Hayes Jacob

Easy access to a range of materials

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Provides for responsibility and decision making

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Provides authentic tasks

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Invitations to play and engage with concepts

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Open Environment -outdoor environment

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What is the role of the educator?

I believe a teacher’s task is to stand by children’s sides and with thoughtful invtervention when needed,promote the quality of relations children readily have with things around them and what they are doing ”-Vea Vecchi

Modeling

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Honouring student voice

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Facilitating and supporting

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Documentation of learning

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What is our role?

The teacher strives to position students as authors of their learning;to create opportunities for students’ personal interests and experiences to be interwoven 交织，穿插with instruction to advance students’ agency in collective meaning-making and knowledge creation-Kumpulainen&Lipponen,2010

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Agency&Control-The Creative Struggle

Teachers need to balance their instructional教学support with classroom management,Which also entails 意味着social control of students-McNeil 1986

To resolve 解决these negotiations in generative 生成的way,the teacher and students need to master and creatively overcome a contradiction 矛盾between agency and control-Rainio,2008,2010;Rainio &Hilppo,in press

human agency and structure are not opposed 反对but in fact presuppose 臆断，提前假定 each other;structures shape people’s practices, and conversely 反过来，people’s practices constitute 构成（and reproduce）structure-Sewell,1992

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