The post that led me to this paper tended to repeat the same point over and over, offering a number of ways of saying we want a balance between too little agency and too much agency (which, we are told, might lead to suboptimal educational outcomes). The paper itself, to which I link here, is much better structured, but still seems to repeat that same point a lot. Still, there are good bits, including especially the identification of six different types of agency. Is this list exhaustive? Almost certainly not. But it's very useful to keep in mind that agency isn't some undifferentiated whole; epistemic agency, moral agency, and group agency (for example) are each very different.
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