Part 1

In this episode of TandTeaching Arthur chats about Child Agency with Dominic Wyse and Yana Manyukhina from IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education and Society.

What is Child Agency?
Is it a new thing?
Why should we care about it as educators?

What have Dom and Yana been looking into?

Dominic Wyse Dominic is Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the Institute of Education (IOE), University College London (UCL). He is the Founding Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years) (HHCP) a research centre with a focus on primary and early years education and was President of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) from 2019 to 2022.

Yana Manyukhina Yana is Senior Researcher at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy 0-11 years (HHCP) with a strong association with Child Agency

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NOTES for further Reading

Blogpost (10 April 2019): What next for curriculum?

https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/what-next-for-curriculum

Blogpost (14October 2021): Living and learning during a pandemic: what can children tell us?

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2021/10/14/living-and-learning-during-a-pandemic-what-can-children-tell-us/

News story (6December 2021) including the link to the conference keynote talks (June 2021) which were held under the theme: ‘Children’s Agency and the Curriculum’ in collaboration with the Education Learning Trust (ELT) and the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE):

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2021/dec/helen-hamlyn-centre-pedagogy-puts-spotlight-childrens-agency-and-curriculum

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiIYJpyo9fmv_5x6IJWKy3ihqH95Vqz0f

Blogpost (1st March 2021): Children’s agency: What is it, and what should be done?

https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/childrens-agency-what-is-it-and-what-should-be-done

Animation video about children’s agency (2023):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF2-VVxpAg

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