This study aims to theoretically explore the OECD’s notion of student agency and to derive implications for curriculum development and implementation. This study first examines the situation in which student agency has become a key idea in the recen...
This study aims to theoretically explore the OECD’s notion of student agency and to derive implications for curriculum development and implementation. This study first examines the situation in which student agency has become a key idea in the recently formed discourse on education reform and future education through the cases of the OECD’s Education 2030 project and Korea’s 2022 Revised Curriculum. Subsequently, this study confirms that student agency extends beyond the individual to social relationships from the characteristics of individuals who drive specific actions. Although the OECD does not acknowledge this, the notion of student agency expands into ‘performative agency’ when exploring the recent postmodern discourse on the theory of performativity. Though such an attempt, this study tried to derive the implications for curriculum development and implementation from the perspective of postmodern discourse on student agency.