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Warwick, Paul – Management in Education, 2016
This paper explores the leadership of education for sustainability (EfS) in higher education, focusing specifically on the key role students can play as internal catalysts for change. It presents a case study of Plymouth University, a higher education institution with an international reputation for EfS leadership. The paper outlines the…
Descriptors: Leadership, Models, Sustainability, Higher Education
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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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Rogers, Stephen H.; Gunter, Helen M. – Management in Education, 2012
Drawing on interviews with 33 young people between the ages of 14 to 17 attending three English schools we examine their experiences of a personalised education system. The policy climate in England has for some time been one of intense and persistent reforms. The Labour Party took office in 1997 and advanced "personalised learning" as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Individualized Instruction, Goal Orientation
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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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Busher, Hugh – Management in Education, 2012
Student voice is a key component in constructing discourses of respect, empowerment and citizenship in schools. It can help schools to become learning communities, rather than knowledge factories, that serve the needs of the majority of their members, the students, as successfully as possible and prepare them for future lives in a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Practices
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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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Cody, Jennifer L.; McGarry, Lorraine S. – Management in Education, 2012
In this article, two teachers from a public school in the United States describe their beliefs about the importance of using student voice as a foundation for increasing student efficacy, recognizing student individuality, and addressing curriculum standards. Sharing examples from their classrooms, the authors illustrate how student voice can help…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Student Interests, Self Efficacy, Individual Characteristics
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Kidd, Warren – Management in Education, 2012
This article explores the nature of the reflective learning undertaken by pre-service trainee teachers training to teach in the lifelong learning sector in the UK. The argument made is that reflecting on the student voice can support novice teacher's boundary-crossing and legitimate peripheral participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Heggen, 2008).…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Lifelong Learning, Democratic Values, Beginning Teachers
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Mitra, Dana; Serriere, Stephanie; Stoicovy, Donnan – Management in Education, 2012
This article explores how leadership can help to enable student voice to occur in schools. We find that the relationship between teachers and the school leader is a critical context for enabling voice. Specifically, we find that the following concepts were important for efforts to enable and foster student voice: (1) clear vision of school that is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Student Attitudes, Student Participation, Student Empowerment
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Czerniawski, Gerry – Management in Education, 2012
At a time when "trust" is argued by many to be on the wane within post-industrial societies this article examines a case study of pupil voice brought about through collaboration between a secondary school (for pupils aged 11-16) and a university located in a large conurbation in southern England. Building on data from focus groups and…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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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
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Garlick, Su – Management in Education, 2008
The Student Voice project was launched in January 2007. The aim was to provide a method of encouraging students to become actively involved in decisions about their own learning and empowering them with appropriate ways to do so. Ninety-two pupils were divided up into specific focus groups (a voice). These "voices" include: (1) the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Higher Education