This series of 4 videos feature Dr Caroline Scott, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University, discussing children’s agency and the idea that children can act with initiative to pursue outcomes that are both meaningful and valuable for them. Agency can play a significant role in the shaping of identity and offers us much to think about in the early learning environment and into the early years of school
Initiative – Opportunities are the key to agentic power transcript
Affiliation – Respect and empathy as conditions for agency transcript
Empowerment – The benefits of children making decisions transcript
Foundation years – What s valuable and meaningful to children in the early years of school? transcript