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Australian PhD graduates’ agency in navigating their career pathways: stories from social sciences
Despite limited opportunities for tenured academic positions, the number of PhD graduates in Social Sciences has steadily risen in countries with...
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Agency as conversion process
Its importance for understanding social dynamics notwithstanding, the concept of agency is one of sociology’s more controversial ideas. The debate...
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Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment
Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment...
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Themes of climate change agency: a qualitative study on how people construct agency in relation to climate change
This study analyzes how people discursively construct their (non)agency—how they display abilities and capacities to act, or the lack...
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Agency, Goal-Directed Behavior, and Part-Whole Relationships in Biological Systems
In this essay we aim to present some considerations regarding a minimal but concrete notion of agency and goal-directed behavior that are useful for...
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What influences the capacity of donor agency for sustainable development: a study of climate aid projects
Organizational capacity matters to the performance of aid agency in sustainable development. In recent years, development projects focus more on the...
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Valuing COVID-19 as an opportunity to understand teacher agency
This paper seeks to better understand how unanticipated disruption influences teacher agency and professionalism. Drawing on a conceptual model of...
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New kid on the block? a conceptual systematic review of digital agency
The digitalisation of education has been emphasised over the last two decades, affecting and develo** both the theories and practices of teaching...
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Epistemic Agency in Preservice Teachers’ Science Lessons with Robots
Science teachers have been urged to use emerging technologies, such as robots, in ways that empower K-12 students as active participants responsible...
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What Is Agency? A View from Science Studies and Cybernetics
The first part of this essay relates a minimal and primordial concept of agency to be found in science and technology studies to an overall ontology...
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Art and Agency in the Era of De-Structuration: Exploring a New Field
Human agency, implying, from sociology’s perspective, proactive or even transformative individual behaviour upon the social world (or “social...
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Agentic citizenship learning in China: official curriculum and student agency
Although citizenship education (CE) has been widely addressed in many countries’ curricula, few studies have sufficiently explored students’ learning...
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A narrative exploration of agency in the education-migration nexus
This paper employs narrative research methods to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into the role of individual agency in student...
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Case Study 2: Employment Agency
In this chapter we describe the second case study, which is a global operating employment agency. We first outline the context of the employment...
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An Integrative Approach to Emotional Agency at Work
The concept of agency has recently emerged as a fruitful construct in understanding organizational practices and development. However, agency has...
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Nature and Agency: Towards a Post-Kantian Naturalism
We outline an alternative to both scientific and liberal naturalism which attempts to reconcile Sellars’ apparently conflicting commitments to the...
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Agency in Mathematical Practice
A characteristic feature of the philosophy of mathematical practice is to attend to what people do when they do mathematics. But what does it mean to...
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The ethical agency of AI developers
Public and academic discourse about the ethics of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science has largely focused on the algorithms...
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Ontogenesis, Organisation, and Organismal Agency
At first sight, the empirical study of ontogenesis and the theoretical study of organismal agency seem to have little in common. In this chapter, I...
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Agency in Educational Technology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Implications for Learning Design
Advancing learners’ agency is a key educational goal. The advent of personalized EdTech, which automatically tailor learning environments to...
