So in education ‘agency’ is often defined as ‘agentic engagement’—basically taking ownership over your own learning. I couldn’t find any good systematic reviews on interventions that increase agentic engagement. This is pretty weak evidence and might have a healthy dose of motivated reasoning (my end, and theirs), but people who have thought about agency for longer than I have seem to think...
In conclusion, the answer as to how teachers can support students’ agentic engagement is to adopt a significantly more autonomy-supportive classroom motivating style.
That makes sense in the context of education. However, I’d add that agency also contains some components related to general ability (and perceived ability) to exert influence on the world in a way that’s aligned with one’s values.
The section on what autonomy supportive educators tend to do is highly valuable. Appears quite related to coaching (although coaching is a much broader term).
So in education ‘agency’ is often defined as ‘agentic engagement’—basically taking ownership over your own learning. I couldn’t find any good systematic reviews on interventions that increase agentic engagement. This is pretty weak evidence and might have a healthy dose of motivated reasoning (my end, and theirs), but people who have thought about agency for longer than I have seem to think...
… so I don’t have any better ideas than those described above.
That makes sense in the context of education. However, I’d add that agency also contains some components related to general ability (and perceived ability) to exert influence on the world in a way that’s aligned with one’s values. The section on what autonomy supportive educators tend to do is highly valuable. Appears quite related to coaching (although coaching is a much broader term).