Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership

An established body of research details the faculty role in promoting student engagement. Newer scholarship on agentic engagement foregrounds student-initiated engagement in classroom learning. Our SoTL project explored how participating in student-faculty pedagogical partnerships supported two unde...

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Autores principales: Alison Cook-Sather, Samantha Allard, Elena Marcovici, Bill Reynolds
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b0f0e36e520a40d185f19a781f9b9b042021-12-02T18:48:35ZFostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership1931-474410.20429/ijsotl.2021.150203https://doaj.org/article/b0f0e36e520a40d185f19a781f9b9b042021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol15/iss2/3https://doaj.org/toc/1931-4744An established body of research details the faculty role in promoting student engagement. Newer scholarship on agentic engagement foregrounds student-initiated engagement in classroom learning. Our SoTL project explored how participating in student-faculty pedagogical partnerships supported two undergraduate students in expanding agentic engagement to encompass student empowerment and equity both within and beyond the classroom. We draw on the students’ autoethnographic accounts of three interrelated experiences: (1) joining a pedagogical partnership program as pedagogical consultants and developing confidence in, capacity for, and commitment to supporting student and faculty learning; (2) carrying that confidence, capacity, and commitment into the courses in which those students were enrolled to enact agentic engagement in their own and in support of others’ learning; and (3) expanding the agentic engagement they developed in the first two instances beyond classroom learning. This study has implications for classroom instruction, faculty professional development, and student advising and retention.Alison Cook-SatherSamantha AllardElena MarcoviciBill ReynoldsGeorgia Southern Universityarticleagentic engagementpedagogical partnershipempowermentequityTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2021)
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topic agentic engagement
pedagogical partnership
empowerment
equity
Theory and practice of education
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pedagogical partnership
empowerment
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Theory and practice of education
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Samantha Allard
Elena Marcovici
Bill Reynolds
Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
description An established body of research details the faculty role in promoting student engagement. Newer scholarship on agentic engagement foregrounds student-initiated engagement in classroom learning. Our SoTL project explored how participating in student-faculty pedagogical partnerships supported two undergraduate students in expanding agentic engagement to encompass student empowerment and equity both within and beyond the classroom. We draw on the students’ autoethnographic accounts of three interrelated experiences: (1) joining a pedagogical partnership program as pedagogical consultants and developing confidence in, capacity for, and commitment to supporting student and faculty learning; (2) carrying that confidence, capacity, and commitment into the courses in which those students were enrolled to enact agentic engagement in their own and in support of others’ learning; and (3) expanding the agentic engagement they developed in the first two instances beyond classroom learning. This study has implications for classroom instruction, faculty professional development, and student advising and retention.
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author Alison Cook-Sather
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Bill Reynolds
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title Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
title_short Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
title_full Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
title_fullStr Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
title_full_unstemmed Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
title_sort fostering agentic engagement: working toward empowerment and equity through pedagogical partnership
publisher Georgia Southern University
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