W tym duchu.
"In the ‘context as container’ view, this container tended to include both social and material environments surrounding the learner, including other people, objects and technologies. Some also acknowledged the larger cultural discourses and practices circulating in this container, to break free from a purely material view of a spatial container. Within this conception, the role of the collective in learning processes was viewed differently on a range of degree and direction of causality. One view presented the collective as a realist set of conditions, disciplines, practices and objects within which the learning agent interacted. The degree to which this set of conditions was interdependent with or entirely separate from the learning agent varied, but it was not ascribed causality. Few outside the co-participation/coemergent themes even theorized how this set of conditions came into existence, or how these conditions actually changed through the learning agent’s interactions with them. A second view ascribed more active pedagogic intervention to the collective, presenting the collective as a teacher whether materialized as a specific coach, as directions, or as more diffuse but still active affordances and inhibitors of learning embedded within the collective. A third view moved further, presenting the collective in a learning transaction as a causal entity outside the learner, acting upon the learner through determining ideologies, intentional programs, or organizational structures. A fourth view, most evident in the sensemaking theme, reversed the direction of causality, conceiving the collective almost as the outcome of learning, constructed through individuals’ meanings or actions."
http://tinyurl.com/apm3b4s
"All the answers most often suggested are unsatisfactory: they either include some sort of causal gap, which is hardly any kind of control or they postulate some unexplained additional causal entity: a "self" or "soul" or whatever. It's not clear that any
additional entity besides your beliefs, desires, attitudes, preferences etc. can leave YOU in control."
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/freem...
"Further, the practitioner may ask the student to offer explanations that account for the student’s own behaviour on the assumption that the student is an independent causal entity responsible (at least in part) for their own behaviour."
http://tinyurl.com/bmns766

What Does Anybody Want? Desire, Purpose, and the Acting Subject in the Study of Culture
Robert A. Paul
Cultural Anthropology
Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov., 1990), pp. 431-451
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
https://www.jstor.org/stable/656187
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Synonyms useful depending on the exact context: acting person, agent, perpetrator, causal agent