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How teachers can support students' agentic engagement

Bibliographic Data

ID4255534
AuthorsJohnmarshall Reeve (0000-0002-6827-293X, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author), Stephanie Hyewon Shin (0000-0001-5448-5718, Michigan State University)
Year2020
Volume59
Issue2
Pages150-161
Publication date2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405841.2019.1702451
OpenAlexW2996228069
LanguageEN
Citations received63
References cited30

Agentic engagement represents students' constructive contribution into the flow of instruction they receive, as students express their interests and offer their input. It is a purposive, proactive, and reciprocal type of engagement that is integral to promoting important student outcomes (e.g., learning, achievement), but its essential purpose is to recruit greater autonomy support from the teacher. We first highlight the different ways that teachers typically respond to student displays of agentic engagement (i.e., support, indifference, or control). We then recommend that teachers adopt an autonomy-supportive motivating style that will allow teachers to become increasingly in sync with their students as agents. Thus, the purpose of the article is to explain how teachers might best support students' agentic engagement during classroom instruction

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