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Kent, Peter – Management in Education, 2012
In this piece Peter Kent, headteacher of Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby in the UK, reflects upon the role of the student voice in selecting and recruiting new teaching staff. Contextualised by some recent unsympathetic reporting in the UK media, Peter explains why for their school community, using the student voice to inform teacher recruitment…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Teacher Recruitment, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Smyth, John – Management in Education, 2012
The Australian school context has been something of a failed test case of trying to organise schooling around the tenets of the market as a regulating mechanism. The result has been an intensification of social stratification as the already "disadvantaged" miss out yet again in education. This short paper argues that what is needed to…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Participation
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Beattie, Helen – Management in Education, 2012
This article recounts the story of how one state in the United States is systematically amplifying student voice through school transformation efforts across a network of secondary schools (Grades 9 through 12; ages 14 to 18). The author is the creator and director of a statewide initiative entitled "Youth and Adults Transforming Schools Together"…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Action Research, Student Participation, Educational Change
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Marsh, Helena – Management in Education, 2012
This paper is a summary of a pupil voice research project conducted to investigate the influence that teacher-pupil relationships have on pupils' feelings of engagement with their school. The study involved two year groups (12-13 and 14-15 year olds) in a rural secondary school in Cambridgeshire. Data sources were collected through a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries