Empowerment through agency enhancement

Frontiers in Psychology

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Zhiyue Tong¹  Fengcun An¹ 

[1] School of Foreign Languages, Yanbian University

关键词: agency;    enhancement;    development;    marginalized communities;    interdisciplinary exploration;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1060256

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Agency has received considerable attention during the last decade and is gaining increasing popularity in the exploitation of psychology field. As Antti et al. (2016) state, “Agency is hence closely related to autonomy and power relations in human activity and learning” (p. 1). Numerous scholars have defined agency as a psychological term. For instance, Gao (2010) indicates that agency is commonly defined as an individual's will and capacity to act, which reveals the centrality of agency to learner identity, learner autonomy, and learner behavior in particular and sheds a light on the importance of empowering learners to lead their own learning. Previous studies have moved agency research forward in several respects. However, despite some researchers' attempts to facilitate such processes, those studies have encountered substantial challenges. The book Empowerment through Agency Enhancement written by Mine Sato, Nobuo Sayanagi, and Toru Yanagihara theoretically and practically addresses these challenges and the research gap and provides a blueprint for further agency research.

【 授权许可】

CC BY