Full Description
This book offers educators practical strategies to cultivate agency in both teachers and learners. By focusing on collaborative learning through writing, blended learning and reflective practice, it equips readers with essential tools to enhance their teaching methods and promote learner autonomy in various educational contexts.
Blending theory with real-world applications, the book demonstrates how learner and teacher agency are deeply interconnected, showing how collaboration, technology and reflective practices create more dynamic, student-centred classrooms. The first author's action research project provides practical insights, illustrating how agency can be fostered in both in-person and blended learning environments. Readers will also gain valuable perspectives from other teachers, who share how reflective practice has helped them improve their own agency, as well as their students' engagement and independence.
Educators, teacher educators and researchers across disciplines will find this book indispensable for its evidence-based strategies, offering actionable approaches to fostering agency, collaboration and professional development in today's rapidly evolving educational landscape.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword
1. Individual and collective agency in learning and teaching
2. Agency in collaborative learning
3. Agency and collaboration in a blended environment
4. From reflective practice to action research
5. An action research project: A blended collaborative writing course from New Zealand
6. Learner practices of the blended collaborative approach
7. Learner perceptions of the blended collaborative approach
8. Post-action research reflection: From research back to reality
9. A single voice to a community of practice
10. Future directions for collaborative learning and collective agency
References
Index
