School autonomy and the surveillance of teachers

C Skerritt - International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A significant paradox of school autonomy is that it tends to constrain the
autonomy of teachers, instead subjecting them to the increased controlling of their work …

Student voice and classroom practice: how students are consulted in contexts without traditions of student voice

C Skerritt, M Brown, J O'Hara - Pedagogy, culture & society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Different countries have different histories, traditions, cultures, and practices of student voice
and are currently at different stages of their student voice journeys. This paper investigates …

'Just let them have a say!'Students' perspective of student voice pedagogies in primary physical education

G Cardiff, D Ní Chróinín, R Bowles… - Irish Educational …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
While student voice pedagogies have been cited as a powerful educational tool in engaging
children in the learning process, the perspectives of primary-aged children on using these …

Feeling voice: The emotional politics of 'student voice'for teachers

R Black, E Mayes - British Educational Research Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, student voice has become a popular school reform strategy, with the
promise of generating relations of trust, respect, belonging and student empowerment …

Pride and privilege: The affective dissonance of student voice

R Finneran, E Mayes, R Black - Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Student voice has been heralded as a practice that provides all children with the opportunity
to exercise their right to participate in matters affecting them. However, a common research …

“You get to 'feel'your culture”: Aboriginal students speaking back to deficit discourses in Australian schooling

K Lowe, S Weuffen - The Australian Educational Researcher, 2023 - Springer
Despite an expenditure of over $45 billion in the last decade aimed at meeting the Closing
the Gap strategies, successive Federal and state governments have overseen a generation …

Student voice and the school hierarchy: the disconnect between senior leaders and teachers

C Skerritt, J O'Hara, M Brown… - Oxford Review of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper shows how the commitment of senior leadership teams to student voice is not
necessarily shared by teachers. As part of a wider study, this paper presents qualitative data …

Researching how student voice plays out in relation to classroom practice in Irish post-primary schools: a heuristic device

C Skerritt, J O'Hara, M Brown - Irish Educational Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper makes a novel and important contribution to scholarship by developing and
presenting a set of concepts and questions for those researching student voice in Ireland to …

'Turn up the volume and listen to my voice': Students' perceptions of Music in school

NE Stavrou, I Papageorgi - Research Studies in Music …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Music teachers are often faced with students' negative attitudes towards Music as a school
subject, and dilemmas of what would be most important to teach and at the same time …

Who takes part in participation? Challenges to empowering student voice in music teacher education

B Fredriksen, SV Onsrud, H Rinholm… - Music Education …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we employ a participatory action research framework to investigate how
preservice music teachers can take part in developing their own education. The main focus …