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Cook-Sather, Alison – Theory Into Practice, 2020
Student voice is a concept and a set of approaches that position students alongside credentialed educators as critics and creators of educational practice. Student voice and student agency are closely linked when school stakeholders connect the sound of students speaking with students having the power to influence practices and analyses of…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Educational Research, Power Structure, Authors
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Cook-Sather, Alison; Allard, Samantha; Marcovici, Elena; Reynolds, Bill – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
An established body of research details the faculty role in promoting student engagement. Newer scholarship on agentic engagement foregrounds student-initiated engagement in classroom learning. Our SoTL project explored how participating in student-faculty pedagogical partnerships supported two undergraduate students in expanding agentic…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Learner Engagement, Student Empowerment, Equal Education
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Cook-Sather, Alison – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Digital media have unique potential to amplify student voice in both high school teacher preparation and academic development for college faculty. This paper applies narrative analysis to participant descriptions of how three uses of digital media amplify student voice in the context of a single higher education consortium: (1) high school…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, College School Cooperation, Multimedia Materials, College Faculty
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Bovill, Catherine; Cook-Sather, Alison; Felten, Peter – International Journal for Academic Development, 2011
Within higher education, students' voices are frequently overlooked in the design of teaching approaches, courses and curricula. In this paper we outline the theoretical background to arguments for including students as partners in pedagogical planning processes. We present examples where students have worked collaboratively in design processes,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Student Role
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article describes a project that positions high school students as teacher educators within an undergraduate secondary certification program. A brief review of researchers' arguments for listening to students and a description of the project contextualize the perspectives of graduates of the program who teach or have taught in city schools.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Curriculum Inquiry, 2006
Every way of thinking is both premised on and generative of a way of naming that reflects particular underlying convictions. Over the last 15 years, a way of thinking has reemerged that strives to reposition students in educational research and reform. Best documented in Australia, Canada, England, and the United States, this way of thinking is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Change, Student Rights, Educational Opportunities
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Cook-Sather, Alison – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
This article discusses how a radical approach to teacher education encourages both pre-service teachers and high school students to embrace a paradoxical model of leadership. A project that positions high school students as teachers and learners in an undergraduate secondary teacher certification course challenges pre-service teachers to learn to…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Participative Decision Making, Preservice Teacher Education, High School Students