What is Agency

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The belief you can make a difference in the world. Learn more in: This Is How I Learn: Co-Creating Space for Students' Voices

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What one has to do to follow their goals, which they perceive as important. Learn more in: Institutional Dynamics and Support for Students With Disabilities in Botswana's Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges

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Having the opportunities to improve one’s position and take steps towards one’s individual goals. Learn more in: Writing as a Form of Agency and Advocacy: Developing Writing Motivation in the Middle Grades

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The ability of people to make decisions and participate in issues related to their own lives and the community in which they live, in contexts where they can be heard. Learn more in: Youth Civic Engagement: New Strategies for Social Innovation

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The ability of individuals to act independently, have control over their own choices, and assume responsibility for themselves. Learn more in: Preparing Principals in Educational Leadership Programs: Exploring Problems of Practice With Self-Directed Learning Projects

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A human ability to act independently and by self-will. Learn more in: Identifying and Constructively Engaging Learner Resistances in the Online Classroom

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Used in the social sciences to refer to the autonomy, free will, or creativity exercised by (normally human) individuals or groups. Agency is typically contrasted with “structure” and/or with those forces (e.g. institutional, ideological, legal, normative) external to individuals but which act to constrain, direct or condition behaviour. Learn more in: The Mediation of Identity: Key Issues in Historic Perspective

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The sense of perceiving oneself as being the cause of the own actions. Learn more in: Mediated Embodiment in New Communication Technologies

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Capability to take actions for one’s own behalf or speak on one’s own behalf. Learn more in: Confessions of a Self-Directed Learner

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The ability to act or of acting intentionally upon one’s thoughts or feelings, rather than being acted upon. Learn more in: Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Spaces for Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning

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A belief that one’s actions can lead to changes in one’s life. Learn more in: Leading P-12 Transformative Initiatives in Personalized Learning: Empowering Teachers and Students to Assert Agency in Their Own Development

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A person’s belief that they have control of their own life and can make choices to shape their environments to achieve personal goals. Learn more in: Transformative Social and Emotional Learning: Examining Learning Management Systems Through the Pairing of Digital Learning Environments

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The individual’s choice to exert his or her personal power in thoughts, words, and actions. Learn more in: Consumerism, Violence, and Dehumanization: The Vicious Dynamic Circle

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The sense and ability that an individual has to make choices and to act towards outcomes that they choose. Agency depends on the resources that individuals have access to. Learn more in: Development Impacts of Free Public Wi-Fi in Johannesburg

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The ability to act upon circumstances around one’s existence in an effort to cause change for the better. Learn more in: That's My Space: Ageing, Gender, and Survival in Ugandan Theatre

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An individual’s sense of control and faith in own ability. Learn more in: Transformative eLearning and Portfolio Careers in Higher Education

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The capacity of a cognitive system to act. Learn more in: Screen Time, Temporality, and (Dis)embodiment

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The capacity to carry out actions with an intention. The capacity children and youth have to make their own free choices. In the context of this chapter must also be understood as the possibility to give voice to the children and youth in political and social processes. Learn more in: Reparations for Children and Youth: A Peacebuilding Mechanism

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The ability of a social actor to make decisions in circumstances that make him aware of this ability. Learn more in: Towards a Social Dramaturgy of Digital Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Romania: A Qualitative Discourse Analysis

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A complex, and partly contradictory, concept on humans’ capacity to impact and transform life circumstances and the social practices they are engaged in. Agency is both an individual and collective process as well as a product of said process(es). Learn more in: Player Agency, Team Responsibility, and Self-Initiated Change: An Apprentice's Learning Trajectory and Peer Mentoring in Esports

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Is human capability to act on their behalf and to make choices. Learn more in: International Students in Higher Education Classrooms: Diversity, Challenges, and Promising Practices for Educational Institutions

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A thing or person that acts to produce a particular result. Learn more in: An Analysis of Gender Inequality in Professional Tennis: A Study of the Cozening Sport

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The ability for a person to freely act on their own behalf. Learn more in: If S/He Be Worthy: Redditors' Reception to Female Thor

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The ability to identify goals or make choices and then act upon them. Learn more in: Qualitative Studies in Cases of Trafficking: The Case of Migrant Women in Malaysia

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Capacity of people (in this case, teachers) to act purposefully and reflectively. Learn more in: Learning to Teach English Language Learners as “a Side Note”: TESOL Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives of Their Professional Preparation

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An enhanced form of autonomy; a person’s realized capacity to act upon his/her world and give personal meaning to it. Learn more in: Case Study of Urban 4th/5th Grade Teachers and Students Engaged With E-Texts

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The capacity of actors to harness the power to achieve objectives. Learn more in: Global Security and Political Problems of the 21st Century

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Whereby the student/learner has active control over the learning process and can effect change over the content, structure, and outcomes of the learning process. Learn more in: Immersive Learning Theory: As a Design Tool in Creating Purpose-Built Learning Environments

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The means by which an individual undertakes an act, one of the Pentadic elements. Learn more in: Computer Mediated Learning: Applying Burke's Pentad

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The capacity for an individual to act independently and without influence. Learn more in: Challenging the Poverty Narrative Through Children's Literature

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The ability to act on one’s decisions. Learn more in: “I Want to Be a Herpetologist!”: Using the Study of Reptiles and Amphibians to Engage Youth in STEM

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The ability of an individual to produce change. Learn more in: Spatial Justice: Design Agency in the Production of Space

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The capacity to make tangible change that creates differences and transformations. Learn more in: Agency at Play for Collective Impact in Human Services Systems: A Case Study of Digital Games for Change as Design Justice Interventions

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Activism in all fields involving ministries locally and globally. Learn more in: Gender Relations in the Black Church: Pentecostal Ecclesiology and Women's Leadership Roles in Transition

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Agency is the ability and power that people have to undertake and impact positive changes in their personal lives and wider socio-political contexts. Learn more in: Conferences as Learning Spaces for Advancing Knowledge and Action for the SDGs: Insights From Youth Experiences

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The capacity of an individual to make decisions and to act in the world to realize those decisions. Learn more in: Development, Identity, and Game-Based Learning

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The ability for players to make meaningful choices in a game, which usually result in changes to the “game world” (Murray, 1997). Learn more in: Unifying Instructional and Game Design

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The apparent freedom of a character to act, react, not act, or sublimate desire to achieve a goal within a fictional world. Learn more in: Multi-Disciplinary Paths to Actor-Centric Non-Player Character Emotion Models

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The means by which an individual undertakes an act, one of the Pentadic elements. Learn more in: Computer Mediated Learning: Applying Burke's Pentad

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The capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative of one’s own learning. Learn more in: Johnson County Library Makerspace

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Can be seen as both a goal and a mediating resource, and it is about the scope for action and participation and the ability to act independently based on one's own choices. Learn more in: Children's Cultural Backpack and Preschool Education: A Design-Based Study in a Swedish Preschool

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A person’s ability to make decisions that affect the context and situation they are in. Learn more in: The Gendered Nature of Chatbots: Anthropomorphism and Authenticity

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A belief in one’s ability to take the initiative necessary to assume an active role in one’s own setting, culture, community, content, process, and/or engagement within respective settings. Learn more in: Land as Agency: A Critical Autoethnography of Scandinavian Acquisition of Dispossessed Land in the Iowa Territory

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The ability to make one’s own decisions ensuring a sense of empowerment. Learn more in: Ruling the Country Without Losing the Self: An Exploration of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Identity Construction and Maintenance

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The rhetorical capacity and emergent process enacted through which individuals create meanings. Learn more in: Audience, User, Producer: MOOCs as Activity Systems

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The capacity to act intentionally and achieve goals guided by cognitive, self-regulatory, motivational and attributional components that enable the learner to play an active role in their learning. Learn more in: Learning Design Based on Personal Paths and Learning Sequences for Activation, Development, and Closure in Teaching

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A belief in one’s ability to assume the initiative necessary to accept an active role in one’s own research, content, process, engagement, and synthesis. Learn more in: Heuristic Inquiry: The Internal Research Pathway

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The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. Learn more in: A Youth Perspective to Participation and Local Governance in Zimbabwe's Post-Fast Track Land Reform Farms

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The power a person has to act in a given situation. Learn more in: Breastfeeding, Authority, and Genre: Women's Ethos in Wikipedia and Blogs

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Giving students a voice through choice by presenting multiple ways for students to access and engage with learning material in ways that are meaningful and appropriate. Learn more in: Inclusive Education and Universal Design for Learning: A Road Map for Rehabilitation Professionals

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Acting on defined goals within a process of self-realization and affirmation. Learn more in: Having “The Voice” and Gaining Agency: Substantive Representation of Women in Local Politics

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The capacity for autonomous, independent decision. An agent is an entity that can perceive an environment and act upon it proactively, not just reactively. Learn more in: Anexact Paths: Computation, Continuity, and Tectonics in the Design Process

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Given the possibility of natural hybridization between humans and machines (with a blur boundary), it is not clear who is performing the actions in order to improve their efficiency. Latour (1999) proposes to study the construction of this strong interaction/integration. Learn more in: Effects of Human-Machine Integration on the Construction of Identity

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The capacity to act independently and make choices. Learn more in: University Reading and Mathematics Clinics in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges with iPad Integration

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The capability of individuals to consciously choose, influence, and structure their actions (Emirbayer & Mische, 1998; Gecas, 2003) and is an exercise of ability and will through action. Learn more in: The Emergence of Agency in Online Social Networks

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The interactor’s possibilities to make meaningful decisions in the storyworld and to see their outcomes. Learn more in: The Digital Campfire: An Ontology of Interactive Digital Storytelling

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The capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative of one’s own learning. Learn more in: Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium

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The strategic making and remaking of selves within structures of power. Agency is not an internal state; rather, it is defined as a way of positioning oneself within communities so as to allow for new identities. Learn more in: Children's Literature as Pedagogy: Learning Literacy Through Identity in Meaningful Communities of Practice

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An individual’s ability to act autonomously which may be influenced by environmental factors such as school policy and culture (Priestly et al., 2015 AU63: The in-text citation "Priestly et al., 2015" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Systemised Collaboration and Empowerment for Crisis Management: What Senior Teachers Can Learn From Supervisees

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An individual or social group’s will to be self-defining and self-determining (Collins, 2009). Learn more in: Overcoming Barriers

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Agency refers to a professional’s sense of intellectual independence and capacity to engage superiors, peers, and organizational processes in ways which reflect self-confidence, a willingness to interrogate, and an ability to take action to effect change or influence the taking of action effecting of change. Moore (2016) describes agency as having a feeling of control over one’s actions and their consequences, and involves consciousness, free will, and responsibility. Learn more in: Power Sharing in Times of Crisis: Jamaican Teachers' Reflections on Principals' Leadership Approaches in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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This refers the capacity of teachers to act purposefully and to have control to direct their professional growth. Learn more in: Collaborative Learning in Schools With Social Media: A Social Constructivist View

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The capacity of an entity (a person or other entity) to act in, and influence, an artificial environment. Learn more in: Design Process for Accessible Virtual Reality Learning Environments: A First Approach

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The ability to have free choice and work independently. Learn more in: Moving In-Frame: Creativity Through Reflection Within Digital Spaces

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The power or capacity of a person to act or make decisions. Learn more in: ESL Students' Perceptions of Linguistically Diverse English Language Teachers in English-Speaking Countries: The Effect on Teacher Self-Image

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Agency is a belief in one’s ability to assume the initiative necessary to accept an active role in one’s own research, content, process, engagement, and synthesis ( Throne, 2019 ). Learn more in: Autoethnography and Other Self-Inquiry Methods for Practice-Based Doctoral Research

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Agency refers to the human capacity to produce an effect or change social structures. Learn more in: Institutional Theory and E-Government Research

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The capacity of teachers or students to take ownership in the teaching and learning process by making choices that contribute to their growth. Learn more in: COVID-19 Recovery in Schools and Self-Care for Teachers

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A learner’s internal motivation to be in charge of their own learning, develop dispositions as an active learner, and to make plans to carry out learning actions centered around their own goals. Learn more in: Equity, Literacies, and Learning in Technology-Rich Makerspaces

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A human’s capacity to make choices; typically contrasted to natural forces or nonhuman elements. Learn more in: What Does Digital Media Allow Us to “Do” to One Another?: Economic Significance of Content and Connection

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One’s sense of self and self-created power. Learn more in: Linguistic Diversity in the Global Classroom Both Fact and Fiction