Student voice: bringing about change in primary schools
Student voice: bringing about change in primary schools
This paper focuses on an exploration of the use of participatory approaches for facilitating change in schools. Lesson observations, fieldnotes from meetings, and interviews with teachers and children were collected in a study that aimed at exploring how inclusion can be promoted through an engagement with student voice in primary (elementary) schools (5-11-year-olds), in one city in the South of England, U.K. Data analysis highlighted how participatory approaches and methods (student researchers, sticky notes with unfinished sentences, visual methods and observations) allowed students to be actively involved in the research process and led to changes in their schools. We argue that participatory methods can be a powerful means for change, only if they are used in ways that enable sustained dialogues between teachers and students in schools. Of all the methods that we explore, we highlight observation as important in facilitating such efforts.
school change, dialogue, student researchers, Participatory methods, student voice
Messiou, Kyriaki
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de los Reyes, Elizer Jay
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Potnis, Chinmaya
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Dong, Ping
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Rwang, Vivienne Kachollom
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28 January 2025
Messiou, Kyriaki
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de los Reyes, Elizer Jay
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Potnis, Chinmaya
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Dong, Ping
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Rwang, Vivienne Kachollom
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Messiou, Kyriaki, de los Reyes, Elizer Jay, Potnis, Chinmaya, Dong, Ping and Rwang, Vivienne Kachollom
(2025)
Student voice: bringing about change in primary schools.
International journal of qualitative studies in education.
(doi:10.1080/09518398.2025.2455982).
Abstract
This paper focuses on an exploration of the use of participatory approaches for facilitating change in schools. Lesson observations, fieldnotes from meetings, and interviews with teachers and children were collected in a study that aimed at exploring how inclusion can be promoted through an engagement with student voice in primary (elementary) schools (5-11-year-olds), in one city in the South of England, U.K. Data analysis highlighted how participatory approaches and methods (student researchers, sticky notes with unfinished sentences, visual methods and observations) allowed students to be actively involved in the research process and led to changes in their schools. We argue that participatory methods can be a powerful means for change, only if they are used in ways that enable sustained dialogues between teachers and students in schools. Of all the methods that we explore, we highlight observation as important in facilitating such efforts.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 January 2025
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 January 2025
Published date: 28 January 2025
Keywords:
school change, dialogue, student researchers, Participatory methods, student voice
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/498416
ISSN: 0951-8398
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Elizer Jay de los Reyes
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Chinmaya Potnis
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Ping Dong
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Vivienne Kachollom Rwang
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