Participants enact agency through others by empowering across participant categories: educational staff empower students, while societal partners and students empower each other¶

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q2 i? Societal partners empowered students by treating them as experts and communicating on equal footing, and students empowered partners by producing valuable findings. → Weiwei Liu 2025

Evidence¶

Weiwei Liu 2025¶

Weiwei Liu, Valentina C. Tassone, Pascal Frank, Renate Wesselink, Harm J.A. Biemans. (2025). The role of human agency in dealing with challenges in transdisciplinary learning for sustainability in higher education: A scoping literature review. Educational Research Review 49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100747

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Scoping review synthesis of actions through others, mostly taken by educational staff. The review reports staff protected students' interests, created safe spaces, provided non-judgmental feedback, and deliberately minimized interference to foster ownership.

"Societal partners empowered students by treating them as experts and communicating with them on equal footing (Biberhofer & Rammel, 2017)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• One adult educator's first-person reflection reports that facilitated class discussions left her feeling empowered as an individual contributor — related
• Dispositions such as openness and shared responsibility are shaped by conditions, not fixed individual traits — related
• Deeper co-leadership emerges when staff support lets partners progressively take on responsibility, but recedes when staff carry the process — related
• Research on transdisciplinary sustainability learning disproportionately examines students, with educational staff and societal partners underrepresented — related