Schoon, I;
(2018)
Conceptualising Learner Agency: A Socio-Ecological Developmental Approach.Conceptualising Learner Agency: A Socio-Ecological Developmental Approach.
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Abstract
This paper addresses the interactions between a developing person and a changing social context shaping the acquisition of new skills and competences. It introduces a socio-ecological developmental approach for conceptualising learner agency, which is informed by expectancy-value models of human behaviour, theories of developmental regulation and ecological theories of life course development. Learner agency is understood to reflect the active and lifelong processes of inquiry, engagement and participation in the world around us. It involves the ability to act intentionally, to make things happen, to be a product as well as a producer of the social world. It is argued that learner agency is not a personality characteristic, but a relational process that emerges through interaction with others, and that its manifestations are shaped by the wider socio-cultural context. As such it is learnable and malleable through experience.
| Type: | Digital scholarly resource |
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| Title: | Conceptualising Learner Agency: A Socio-Ecological Developmental Approach.Conceptualising Learner Agency: A Socio-Ecological Developmental Approach |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.llakes.ac.uk/research-papers |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Agency, structure, education and skills, life course, development, learning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048718 |
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