ABSTRACT

This article examines how transformative agency arises in families where parents are struggling with aspects of caring for young children. The mechanisms of how volitional action develops into transformative agency in everyday settings are not well understood. A fine-grained analysis of change is presented in the case of a parent who resolved difficulties relating to her daughter’s feeding. This case is situated within a broader dataset relating to diverse Australian parenting support services. Through double stimulation, parents used multiple auxiliary tools to construct new motives, enabling them to expand understandings and develop new possibilities for action. Evidence of transformative agency was apparent in longer trajectories in which the conditions of parenting were transformed. Relationships between expansive learning, double stimulation, and transformative agency are conceptualized dialectically, offering fresh insights into the dynamics of transformative agency ‘in the wild’.

摘要

本文探讨了在父母在照顾幼儿方面有困难的家庭中，变革性机构是如何产生的。意志行动如何在日常环境中发展为变革性机构的机制尚不清楚。以解决与女儿喂养有关的困难的父母为例，对变化进行了细致的分析。该案例位于与澳大利亚多样化的育儿支持服务相关的更广泛的数据集中。通过双重刺激，父母使用多种辅助工具构建新的动机，使他们扩大理解，开发新的行动可能性。在改变养育条件的较长轨迹中，变革性机构的证据是显而易见的。扩展学习、双重刺激之间的关系，