TY - T1 - The dialectics of agency in educational ethnography SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308669 T3 - A1 - Rainio, Anna; Hilppö, Jaakko A2 - PB - Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - This paper outlines a dialectical conceptualisation of children’s agency for the purposes of multidisciplinary educational theory and practice. We illuminate five contradictory but connected dimensions of children’s agency, or the dialectics of agency, identified from theoretical debate between sociologically and psychologically oriented educational literature: Agency (1) as enacted and imagined; (2) as situatively emergent and progressively developmental; (3) as dependence and separation; (4) a... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 516 Educational sciences N1 - PP - ER -