In het programma ‘Agency arrangeren’ onderzoeken we welke elementen in activiteiten voor en met jongeren (12-18 jaar) deze jongeren ondersteunen in het ontwikkelen van ‘agency’. We richten ons daarbij op jongeren die in een achterstandspositie verkeren en/of anderszins kwetsbaar zijn. Het ervaren van agency draagt bij aan zowel het persoonlijke welzijn als de maatschappelijke participatie en betrokkenheid van jongeren. In hoofdstuk 2 komen we op basis van literatuur tot een eigen definitie van en visie op agency. In hoofdstuk 3 gaan we in op de vraag hoe omgevingen gearrangeerd kunnen worden die ruimte bieden voor agency van jongeren en die de ontwikkeling van agency stimuleren, Tot slot brengen we in hoofdstuk 4 kort samen hoe we uit te literatuur tot een onderzoeksfocus komen voor de volgende fasen van dit programma.
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Agency (stuurkracht) betreft de mogelijkheid om doelbewust en reflectief eigen gedrag, gedachten en de omgeving te beïnvloeden (Bandura, 2018). Het is een sleutelcapaciteit voor een leven lang leren (Biesta & Tedder, 2007). In het hoger onderwijs kunnen we studenten hierop voorbereiden door hen te laten oefenen met het reguleren en sturen van hun leren (OECD, 2018). Onderwijsinnovaties spelen hierop in met open en flexibele leeromgevingen, maar niet alle studenten kunnen omgaan met autonomie en hun leren sturen (De Bruin & Verkoeijen, 2022; Van Casteren et al., 2021). Doel van dit onderzoek is om zicht te krijgen op factoren die student agency beïnvloeden om interventies te ontwikkelen die student agency in de leeromgeving stimuleren.
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School, jongerenwerk en hulpverlening helpen jongeren functioneren in en aanpassen aan de samenleving. We zijn op zoek naar ‘omkering’: Hoe kunnen we jongeren ondersteunen om changemakers te zijn? Om hun omgeving en de samenleving positief te veranderen en hen daar de ruimte voor te geven? Deze handreiking biedt inzichten in de onderzoeksresultaten van het programma 'Agency arrangeren' en maakt het hanteerbaar voor praktijkprofessionals. Het geeft verder aan wat er vanuit organisaties en lokaal sociaal beleid nodig is om jongeren de leiding te geven, en hen daarbij te ondersteunen.
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In een veranderende arbeidsmarkt is het noodzakelijk om je als professional wendbaar op te stellen, in te spelen op nieuwe rollen en je loopbaan doelbewust vorm te geven. In het hoger beroepsonderwijs sluiten steeds meer onderwijsinnovaties hierop aan met leeromgevingen, waarin van studenten verwacht wordt dat ze hun leerproces autonoom en bewust kunnen construeren. De vraag is hoe student agency in een dergelijke onderwijsleeromgeving wordt gestimuleerd. presentatie Onderwijs Research Dagen
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Societal trends such as increased accountability, teacher shortages, and flexibility in learning paths affect the work of teacher educators. This study explores the collective agency of Dutch geography teacher educators as they enact the subject pedagogy curriculum within this rapidly changing context. Whilst teacher agency has been widely studied, research on teacher educators—particularly from a collective perspective—remains scarce. Drawing on Priestley et al.'s ecological approach, this study aims to disentangle teacher educators' collective spaces of agency by means of cultural, structural, and material resources. Using focus group interviews with three teams of geography teacher educators, we identified three key challenges that define their collective spaces of agency: (1) accommodating students' developmental phases, (2) gaining insight into students' internship learning, and (3) the growing divide between subject-specific and general teacher education. Thematic analysis revealed that teams of educators experience a different sense of agency in each of these spaces, depending on their ability to draw on the available resources. Our findings show that teams of educators draw on strong subject teacher identities (cultural resources) and experience collective agency when enacting subject pedagogy at the course level (structural resources). Their sense of agency is weak at the institutional level, particularly in relation to curricular change. This study contributes to a more profound understanding of teacher educators' collective spaces of agency. Disentangling these spaces can help teams of teacher educators to identify the necessary resources to restore their sense of agency in difficult times.
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Why studying student agency? • Prepare students for lifelong learning. (Biesta & Tedder, 2007;OECD, 2018) • Agency fosters motivation, which could enhance performance. (Bandura, 2018; Ryan & Deci, 2020) • More flexibility in higher education, but not all students can handle this. (De Bruin & Verkoeijen, 2022; Van Casteren e.a., 2021)
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In order to deliver good work, professionals need agency – the ability to act and decide on the course of one’s actions. The agency of professionals in the public sector is however increasingly under pressure. Research suggests that these limitations on the agency of public professionals in turn limit their ability to create and sustain positive outcomes for the people and populations they serve.In this chapter, we discuss findings resulting from a longitudinal bottom-up action research approach in the Dutch education sector. The approach is aimed at strengthening the agency of public professionals, using professional dialogue as a central concept. We present and discuss both the methodology used and the results of that methodology in strengthening the agency of public professionals in 11 teams in 3 educational institutions.The results suggest that there are clear benefits of a tailor-made support for teams of professionals, such as employed in the action research. In varying degrees and dependent on context, this started or accelerated reflection on and improvement in setting goals, cooperation in the team and quality of work, thus at least partly increasing the agency of public professionals in the teams. In varying degrees, the lack of sufficient team and organizational conditions were found to often hinder the development of agency of public professionals.
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Agency in education: The capacity to intentionally and reflectively construct one’s learning path and influence one’s functioning and circumstances. We focus on social-cognitive perspective.
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Sustainability transitions are not hindered by technological barriers but above all by the lack of well-qualified people. Educating the next generation of engineers and product designers is therefore more important than ever. However, a traditional widely used model of instruction and evaluation is not sufficient to prepare this next generation for the demands of society. It is appropriate that curricula should be adapted. If necessary, in a disruptive way. The question was how to develop an education module in which students are agents in their learning. In which students decide what and how they will learn, and in which they can prepare for a role in society that is in shock. To propel them in a new direction a disruptive education innovation has been designed and tested. This new method turns the traditional education model upside down. Students and lecturers are transformed in equal partners in aninnovation consultancy firm with a passion for engineering, product design, and with a focus on sustainability transition. Students explore their emotionally intrinsic values that enables them to accomplish great things, to experience meaning in their lives and work, and leads to a significant learning experience.Purpose of this paper is to give individuals and organisations involved in higher education insight into a new method of education based on new values such as student agency, equal partnership, partnership learning communities, significant learning experience, and the strong belief students have the capacity and the willingness to positively influence their own lives and environment
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Posterpresentatie tijdens de Onderwijs Research Dagen.
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