Обсуждение:Agentivity
The desired future of modern learning can be described as a situation where teachers and students are active agents that produce knowledge. Both society and education equally need participants with their own agency, because agency drives participation in the decision-making, knowledge production and collaborative learning. The concept of ‘agency’ reflects the individual’s ability to perform an ‘agent’, i.e. active protagonist, the driving force behind the action (Inden, 2000). For Russia, the problem of fostering agency is particularly acute, because of the extent to which individual agency has been historically foreign to our culture (Wierzbicka, 1992). A necessity of formation participant’s agency requires mentors of learning to put special attention to the problems of self-control and self-determination of behavior of participants. People have agency to the extent that they can alter their environment so that the environment affects them in adaptive ways. Schwartz (Schwartz, 1999) termed this formulation ‘productive agency’, because it emphasizes production through the environment. Schwartz defined productive agency as a recursive system where people take advantage of their available means to produce outwardly, and they see their ideas embodied and modified by the material or social world. Production distinguishes between situations that involve external production and those that do not and in this regard productive agency is akin to constructionism. Constructionism argues that learning occurs best when constructing a public artifact.
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