Description
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the rights of the child, through including student voice in educational matters that affect them directly. It focuses on the experiences of children and young people and explores how our educational policies, practices and research endeavours enable educators to help young people tell their own stories. The respective chapters illustrate how listening to young people can help them attain new positions of power, even though doing so often creates discomfort and requires a radical change on the part of the adult establishment. Further, the book challenges researchers, teachers and practitioners to reconsider how students are involved in research and policy agendas, and to what extent radical collegiality can create fundamental and positive changes in the lives of these learners.
In recent decades, greater attention has been paid across policy, practice and research discourses to involving children more meaningfully and actively in decisions about their participation in both formal and informal educational settings. The book’s goal is to illustrate how researchers have systematically involved students in the pursuit of a richer understanding of educational experiences, policy and practice through the eyes and ears of young people, and through their own cultural lens.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Using student voice to challenge understandings of educational research, policy and practice.- Chapter 2. Tracing the evolution of student voice in Educational Research.- Chapter 3. Voice and the ethics of children's agency in educational research.- Chapter 4. Representing youth voices in indigenous community research.- Chapter 5. Marginalised youth speak back through research: Empowerment and transformation of educational experience.- Chapter 6. Challenges of student voice within a context of threatened identities.- Chapter 7. Gathering and listening to the voices of Māori students: What are the system responses?.- Chapter 8. Foregrounding the stories of secondary school students with disabilities.- Chapter 9. Students' voice shifting the gaze from measured learning to the point of learning.- Chapter 10. Beyond the official language of learning: Teachers engaging with student voice research.- Chapter 11. Student voice, citizenship and regulated spaces.- Chapter 12. Teachers and Power in Student Voice: 'Finger on the Pulse, Not Children Under the Thumb'.
