Synthesis reveals multifaceted models of student agency across learning environments, highlighting strategies for educators and policymakers to foster learner empowerment.
This culminating article synthesizes the collection of articles to discuss conceptualizations of student agency across contexts. Themes that exist across the collection of articles include agency as multidimensional, agency as a navigational tool, and agency as advocacy. In this concluding article, ideas from across the articles are presented to define and describe student agency and identify the benefits that come from agency in schools. A focus is examining where to from here with implications for educators, administrators, teacher educators, researchers, and policy makers on ways to cultivate student agency in classrooms today.
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