Forward anchoring in transformative agency: How parents of children with complex feeding difficulties transcend the status quo

Children's perezhivaniya and agency during the COVID-19 pandemic: Narrative research from China

“…The cultural-historical approach is used to explore “the adaptive and innovative opportunities that [children] create through agentic projects with each other and the natural world, rather than as against each other and the world” ( Cole et al, 2019, p. 283 ). In this line, agency is not a property of individuals but emerges in materially mediated social interaction, enabled and constrained by societal and material structures ( Hopwood et al, 2022 ; Sannino, 2015 ). By sharing these ideas, children are not only able to obtain and understand their perezhivaniya but are also, through their agency, able to contribute to and even change the activities that take place in these settings.…”

“…A review article by Varpanen (2019) reveals that studies on CA offer theoretical resources in six main areas: new sociology of childhood, cultural-historical theory, post-structuralist theory, psychology, the capabilities approach, and American pragmatism. The present article focuses on the issues at hand through the conceptual lenses of the cultural-historical approach (e.g., Edwards, 2005 ; Hopwood et al, 2022 ; Kumpulainen et al, 2014 ; Ma et al, 2022 ; Rainio, 2008 ; Sairanen et al, 2020 ).…”

Parents' experiences of their child's transition from tube to oral feeding during an intensive intervention programme

“…This could be due to constraints within which their service operates such as funding, weaning expertise or service models that prioritize professional expertise (Syrmis et al, 2020). However, parents' drive to find new opportunities for their child meant that these parents repositioned themselves as central to decision making and took responsibility for determining the next steps in tube removal (Hopwood et al, 2022), even though they were anxious, feared failure and were concerned that they may inflict further pain upon their child.…”

Computationel Tankegang i Matematik: Et studie af det pædagogiske personales transformative agency i et kulturhistorisk analytisk perspektiv

“…Jeg vaelger derfor at inddrage et kollektivt fokus på agency, hvilket kan betegnes som transformativ agency (Sannino, 2015a;Haapasaari et al, 2016). Transformativ agency er ikke en egenskab ved enkeltpersoner, men opstår i materielt formidlet social interaktion, som muliggøres og begraenses af samfundsmaessige og materielle strukturer (Hopwood et al, 2022). Ved at tage højde for den materielle verden, som menneskelige handlinger er afhaengige af og har til formål at aendre, udvides den individuelles agency udover, hvad den enkelte selv kan klare (Sannino, 2015).…”

“…Transformativ agency skal ses som en proces, der udvikles over tid gennem komplekse dialoger, hvor nye handlinger udspringer. Transformativ agency afviger fra klassiske opfattelser af agency, idet det udspringer af mødet med modsaetninger såsom spaendinger, forstyrrelse og konflikter i den kollektive virksomhed (Sannino, 2015a;Hopwood et al, 2022) stimulus), forkastes begreber om agency, hvor agency ses som en "følelse", som folk har eller som en individuel evne (Sannino, 2020;Hopwood et al, 2022). TADSprocessen indebaerer, at mennesker bryder ud af fastlåste omstaendigheder ved at forvandle disse gennem brug af artefakter, der udvikles og anvendes undervejs (Sannino et al, 2021).…”