Description
Book SynopsisMapping the Terrains of Student Voice Pedagogies is an autoethnography of McDermott's experiences with student voice reforms. Ultimately, the author is concerned with better understanding the possibilities for student voice as a transformative teaching and learning practice within the context of neoliberal education. The discussion is anchored in two past student voice projects in which McDermott was involved, one as a researcher and one as a facilitator. As method, the author revisits these experiences through memory and various artifacts to unpack embodied voices of difference. More specifically, McDermott is concerned with how teachers take up student voice in their pedagogies, how teachers come to understand themselves and their students in terms of student voice, and how social differences contour student voice pedagogies. The author queries: How do experiences with student voice inform teacher <-- --> student relationships? And, how are student voice practices shaped,
Table of Contents
Introductions – Theorizing Student Voice Pedagogies – Contours of Student Voice – Situating Autoethnography in the Cartography – Shifting Terrains of Student Voice and Transformative Teaching and Learning – «Finding Voice»: Acoustic Contours of Difference and Recognizability – Affect Matters in Permutations in Student Voice Encounters – Remapping the Contours of Student Voice with Desire – Willing Disorientations: Unsettling Student Voice Possibilities.
