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Children's Agency in the National Curriculum : The Promise of Structured Freedom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manyukhina, Yana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Student participation in curriculum planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Summary:
- Through in-depth research in diverse primary schools, Manyukhina and Wyse explore how children's voices and choices shape their learning experiences - and why it matters. This ground-breaking text offers new insights into one of education's most pressing questions: how to balance children's agency with educational standards.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- 1 Children and agency in the twenty-first century
- Childhood globally
- Children in the UK
- What is 'agency'?
- Primary education and the curriculum
- Introduction to the book
- 2 Curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment
- Knowledge and the curriculum
- Agency, learning, and educational outcomes
- National curricula internationally
- National contexts
- Redevelopment of the primary curriculum in Ireland
- National curriculum in Hong Kong
- National curricula in the UK
- National curriculum in England from 2014
- 3 Agency and structure in education: A critical realist perspective
- Defining agency
- Critical realism: a framework for understanding educational reality
- Dimensions of agency in educational settings
- Sense and exercise of agency: a dual framework
- Agency as a socially situated capacity to act
- 4 The methods of the CHANT project
- Research approach and design
- Critical discourse analysis and critical realism
- Causality of texts
- Contextual causality
- Examining causality in the curriculum
- The process of critical discourse analysis
- Limitations of critical discourse analysis
- Longitudinal in-depth qualitative inquiry
- Data collection
- Analyses
- 5 The schools and participants
- South City Independent
- The teachers - 2021 to 2023
- The case study pupils
- The curriculum
- Mental health assembly
- School Council
- Lesson design
- Extracurricular activities
- Behaviour policy
- South City State
- The teachers - 2021 to 2022
- The teachers - 2022 to 2023
- Beyond the curriculum
- The School Council
- Reading champions.
- Northern City State
- School overview
- The reward system
- 6 Children and their agency
- Talking about agency: our approach to introducing the term
- Children's agency and choice
- Northern City State
- Children's agency and perceived subject hierarchies
- Children's agency and social dynamics
- Children's agency and School Councils
- Conclusion
- 7 Education structures influencing children's agency
- Curriculum, knowledge, and subject areas
- Assessment, accountability, and children's learning
- The school and society
- 8 Children's agency and primary education
- Children's choice and agency in primary schools
- The impact of assessments and the implementation gap
- The role of social dynamics in fostering agency
- Interplay between structure and agency
- Structured freedom
- Implications for policy and practice
- Implications for policy
- Implications for practice
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-04-038271-1
- OCLC:
- 1519992920
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