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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2019.39.1.101

A Theoretical Investigation on Agency to Facilitate the Understanding of Student-Centered Learning Communities in Science Classrooms  

Ha, Heesoo (Seoul National University)
Kim, Heui-Baik (Seoul National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.39, no.1, 2019 , pp. 101-113 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to explore which aspects of student agency have previously been studied and the ways agent practices have been investigated in learning communities in research on science education. Results reveal five aspects of agency related to students' actions in a learning community: epistemic agency, transformative agency, educated action in science, disciplinary agency, and material agency. We delineated how agency is captured in epistemic practices, as described in the literature on each of the aforementioned aspects. We also probed into the three approaches by which previous research has examined the practices of students as agents that construct learning communities. These approaches are (a) the investigation of students' actions as representative of the agency of an entire learning community, (b) the exploration of the effects of focused student action on the structure of activity, and (c) the investigation of interactions between students as agents. We discussed the implications of previous research on the basis of each approach to understanding the diverse features of student-centered learning communities. The present work contributes to the exploration and support of students' practices as agents in the learning communities in science classrooms.
Keywords
agency; agent; learning community;
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