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Agency in the making: Analyzing students’ transformative agency in a school-based makerspace

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Kajamaa, Anu, Kumpulainen, Kristiina·2019·Mind, Culture, and Activity

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Despite the potential of digitally enhanced learning environments for supporting twenty-first-century learning and educational change, there is a dearth of research knowledge on students’ transformative agency in their use of digital technologies and media within these contexts. Transformative agency accounts for young people’s initiative and commitment to transform their activity and its context(s) for personal and/or academic ends. This paper reports an investigation of students’ transformative agency in a novel, student-centered design and learning environment, referred to as a makerspace. We present our empirical findings as a narrative, illustrating how transformative agency emerged and developed via three intertwined discursive and action-level manifestations of such agency, namely “deviating”, “switching”, and “transfiguring”, in the social activity of a group of four 5th grade students participating in the makerspace environment over one school semester. Our study makes an original contribution to the research on students’ transformative agency and its temporal unfolding in a novel digitally enhanced learning environment.

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Authors
Kajamaa, A., & Kumpulainen, K.
Affiliations
University of Helsinki (FI)
Corresponding author
Kajamaa, Anu
Venue
Mind, Culture, and Activity
Published
2019-07-03
Volume
26
Issue
3
Pages
266-281
ISSN
  • 1074-9039 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-7884
OpenAlex
W2965707535
Cited by
104
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 12
FWCI
25.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Mind Culture and Activity (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion)
Funders
Kulttuurin ja Yhteiskunnan Tutkimuksen Toimikunta
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Digital Education and Society
Keywords
transformative agency, student agency, makerspaces, student-centered learning, digital technologies in education, fifth grade students, 21st century learning

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