Students enact agency toward groups by fostering relational awareness, building interpersonal relationships, holding dialogue, and seeing from other perspectives¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students acknowledged each other's positionality and built trust-based relationships that helped manage stress and motivated cohesive teamwork. → 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

q2 · i? · review · r2

Scoping review synthesis of actions toward groups, mostly from student perspectives. The review reports practices such as presenting personal biographies, documenting team processes, caring emotionally, and explicitly addressing group dynamics to build trust.

"Within student teams, students acknowledged each other's positionality, which encompasses their values, personalities, motivations, learning preferences, and organizational practices, in addition to their relevant disciplinary perspectives (Lake et al., 2016)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Collaboration — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Students perceive that interacting with others in experiential learning fosters empathy and a sense of community by enhancing perspective-taking (beauty) — related
• Teacher education students in PBL identified valuing others' perspectives, interdependence, and learning about self as attitudes necessary for collaborative learning — related
• Group A's brainstorming was repeatedly unproductive because individual interjections redirected the group's dialogue toward personal concerns — related
• Interpersonal relationships are framed as supports for motivation at school — related