HED4804... Assignment 4...DUE 2024....
Assignment Task 4
Study Hodgson (2010), Maldonado-Torres (2007) and Ollson (1999) on Foucault's
ideas about self, agency and ethics. These ideas are important especially for
educators who want to see students develop critical agency. In addition to being...
Study Hodgson (2010), Maldonado-Torres (2007) and Ollson (1999) on Foucault's
ideas about self, agency and ethics. These ideas are important especially for
educators who want to see students develop critical agency. In addition to being
able to recognize and evaluate power structures from a student’s perspective
teacher’s agency is also important.
Consider also the following quote: … agency is always informed by past
experience – and in the particular case of teacher agency this concerns both
professional and personal experience. The model also emphasizes that the
achievement of agency is always orientated towards the future in some
combination of short[er] term and long[er] term objectives and values. And it
illustrates that agency is always enacted in a concrete situation, therefore, both
constrained and supported by cultural, structural, and material resources
available to actors (Priestly et al, 2015:10).
Write a 1600 -1800 -word essay in which you conduct research and write an essay
in which you consider the agency of learners and teachers in the education
environment in order to show the relationship between how these groups are
able to preserve their religious, moral, cultural and or philosophical convictions
such as ‘self-care’ and ‘ubuntu’
Agency within the educational environment is a crucial concept that shapes the
experiences and outcomes for both learners and teachers. It involves the ability to
act independently, make choices, and influence one's own learning and teaching
environment. The theories of self, agency, and ethics as discussed by Foucault,
Hodgson (2010), Maldonado-Torres (2007), and Ollson (1999) offer valuable
insights into how individuals navigate power structures and maintain their
convictions. This essay will explore these ideas, focusing on how learners and
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