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The many faces of agency

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This forum article is a response to the article by Alandeom W. Oliveira, Patterson Rogers, Cassie F. Quigley, Denis Sambursky, Kimberly Barss, and Seema Rivera, The article explores agency from the perspective of both personal action and an understanding of causality within environmental systems, and it explores environmental read-alouds as pedagogical events to enhance elementary school students’ climate literacy and activism. In my response I attempt to sharpen the idea of agency through the literatures on (1) prevention education and (2) the dynamics of classroom task systems.

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Forum response to A. W. Oliveira, P. Rogers, C. F. Quigley, D. Samburskiy, K. Barss, and S. Rivera, Environmental agency in read alouds. doi:10.1007/s11422-013-9531-6

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Doyle, W. The many faces of agency. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 10, 275–279 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-014-9610-3

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