DUT Guide: Fostering student agency
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https://doi.org/10.7146/dut.v20i37.148591Resumé
A student agency perspective supports the development of teaching strategies that incorporate students’ meaning-making and agentic actions. This guide outlines seven strategies for educators in supporting students’ agency: (1) Support the students in becoming students, (2) foster autonomy in coursework, (3) be aware of power relations and cultivate an agency-supportive learning environment, (4) give attention to students’ sense of belonging, during studies and in a futures perspective, (5) ensure that the physical and digital environment supports students’ opportunities for agentic actions, (6) reframe expressions of resistance as agentic events and (7) examine how to encourage agentic reposition such as student persistence.
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