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California State University, Dominguez Hills
Created: May 23, 2000
Latest update: May 23, 2001
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Interdependence
Agency and Dominant Discourse Struggling for the Imaginary

On Agency and Structural Context
in a First Grade Classroom

Review and Teaching Essay by Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata
Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata, May 2001. Fair use "encouraged."

1. What do Henry and Milovanovic mean by "agency" in Constitutive Criminology at Work?

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   • Agency and Structural Context
   • Agency and Social Structure

2. How does insisting that the teacher follow precisely the scripted curriculum affect the teacher's agency?

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   • Agency and Structural Context
   • Agency and Social Structure
   • Consider the teacher's power to enter into decision-making about her teaching.

3. How does "knowingness" or the certainty that there is a "right" answer affect agency?

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   • Knowingness and Agency
   • Consider whose "right" answer (knowingness) is being privileged by the scripted curriculum.

4. Why does the teacher, Ms. Moffett, need to resolve her frustration over not being allowed to introduce the children to the sheer joy of learning? What importance would Hal Pepinsky see in that resolution?

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   • Discussion Topic 1 on On Agency, Structural Context and Peacemaking