Student Agency in the Classroom

Honoring Student Voice in the Curriculum

Margaret Vaughn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2021
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6569-2 (ISBN)

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While student agency is considered an important aspect of classroom learning, opportunities to support and promote agency can be easily missed. This book addresses the inner dimensions of student agency to show what it is, why it is needed, and how it can be translated into instructional practices. In Part I, Locating Student Agency, Vaughn offers a model of agency that can become a core remedy for educators looking for new and better ways to support the learning of historically marginalized students. Part II, Growing Student Agency, illuminates opportunities during instruction where teachers can build upon student contributions. The book includes the voices of teachers who have transformed their classrooms, as well as compelling case stories rich with ideas that teachers can adopt in their own instruction. Student Agency in the Classroom will provide educators at every level, and across all disciplines, with the underlying research and theoretical rationale for this key educational force, along with the practical means to incorporate it into instruction and curriculum.Book Features:

A comprehensive framework that outlines three core dimensions needed to cultivate student agency: dispositional, motivational, and positional.
Detailed strategies and ideas for creating a culture of agency in the classroom and schoolwide.
A collaborative way of thinking about how teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders can promote and cultivate agency.
The author's experience as a classroom teacher, professional developer, and researcher.
Classroom vignettes, teacher interviews, and conversations with students.
Extension sections and discussion questions at the end of chapters.

Margaret Vaughn is an associate professor of literacy and curriculum and instruction at Washington State University. She is the recipient of multiple national awards for her research on teacher practice, schooling, and equitable learning environments.

Contents

Foreword Anne Haas Dyson ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

An Orientation Toward the Nature of Learning 4

The Social Context 4

Overview of This Book 7

PART I: LOCATING STUDENT AGENCY 11

1. What Is Student Agency? 13

Extension 21

The Case of Quin 22

2. Purpose and Intentionality 23

Purpose 24

Intentionality 28

Use of Tools: Self-Directed Symbolization and Improvisation 31

Extension 35

3. Perception and Persistence 37

Perception 37

Persistence 39

Extension 45

4. Interaction and Negotiation 47

Interaction 47

Negotiation 49

Extension 55

PART II: GROWING STUDENT AGENCY 57

5. How Students Experience and Talk About Agency 59

What Do Students Have to Say About Agency? 61

Voice and Choice 62

Extension 70

6. How Teachers Implement and Talk About Agency 72

Opportunities for Voice and Choice 74

Necessity of Agency 75

Flexibility and Supports 79

Extension 84

7. Teaching for Student Agency 85

What Does Agency Look Like in the Classroom? 88

Instructional Practices 94

Extension 96

8. Cultivating a Culture of Agency 97

The Classroom Teacher 98

The Student 100

The Principal 101

Developing Core Beliefs 103

Enacting Behaviors 104

Interactions and Connections 105

Reflection and Action 105

Extension 106

9. A Look to the Future 107

Where to From Here? 109

Conclusion 112

References 113

Index 125

About the Author 130

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Vorwort	Anne Haas Dyson
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	329 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6569-4 / 0807765694
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6569-2 / 9780807765692
Zustand	Neuware