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How is agency imagined and enacted by teachers and students as the restraints of the enclosed classroom are peeled away? This question is considered here by drawing on socio-cultural theories to examine the mutuality of teacher and student agency in a personalised learning environment. This discussion takes into account the literature and is demonstrated by a case study of the complex interplay of expectations and perceptions of self and others during teaching and learning.
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Deed, C. (2015). Using a Game-Design Project to Afford Teacher and Student Agency. In: Prain, V., et al. Personalising Learning in Open-Plan Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-193-9_3
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