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Agency can be defined as the capacity to act independently and to make one’s own choices. This capacity is central to children’s development, and their ability to lead happy, successful lives
Evidence demonstrates that having a sense of agency and being able to exercise this agency to shape learning experience contributes to children’s academic achievement and promotes their socio-emotional development.
Our research on children’s agency aims to develop a better understanding of the impact of educational policies, practices, and environments on the development of agency in children.
At the heart of this research is an attempt to provide robust evidence-based recommendations for of educational policy and practice in order to continuously improve children’s agency and life chances.
Our research on children’s agency:
- Children’s Agency in the National Curriculum (CHANT)
- Download: Children’s Agency, Knowledge, and the Primary Curriculum (pdf)
- Children’s agency research summary for the Chartered College of Teaching’s Education Exchange
- Consultation for the Republic of Ireland National Council for Curriculum and Assessment
- What next for Curriculum?
- Leverhulme Trust: Children’s Agency and the National Curriculum
- Learner agency and the curriculum: a critical realist perspective
- Children’s agency: What is it, and what should be done?
- Living and Learning During a Pandemic
- Watch: Transforming young children’s education: towards agency and participation
- Watch: HHCP Conference 2021 Children’s Agency and the Curriculum.
