TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burman,Lisa
TI  - A culture of agency: fostering engagement, empowerment, identity, and belonging in the early years 
SN  - 9781605547985
U1  - 371.39 BUR/O 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - St. Paul, MN
PB  - Redleaf Press
KW  - Agent (Philosophy)
KW  - Belonging (Social psychology) in children
KW  - Choice (Psychology) in children
KW  - Early childhood education
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in education
KW  - Student-centered learning
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Using her everyday research approach, in the tradition of the pedagogistas of Reggio Emilia, author Lisa Burman observed several special classrooms and identified some common threads: engagement, agency, identity, and belonging, which together combine to create what she terms a culture of agency. The term agency is widely used, but often misunderstood as "giving children choice." Agency is far more than this, and the most powerful learning happens when personal agency is connected to community agency: we are only as strong as each other"--
ER  -