- Title
- How should student voice impact educational leaders?
- Creator
- Angus, Lawrence
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/102970
- Identifier
- vital:10813
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-9918626-1-0
- Abstract
- In this chapter, I use the term 'student voice' in a way that implies more than just allowing students to speak. 'Student voice' has long been associated with educational reform in the interests of disadvantaged and minority students. The idea of giving 'voice' recognizes that students have generally not had sufficient power to influence learning environments. A somewhat different concept of 'student voice,' however, has recently become popularized in some educational leadership literature: a particularly thin voice linked to innocuous notions of student 'feedback' rather than to authentic engagement in educational reform. I am therefore referring to 'authentic' student voice in arguing that it is important to regard students, particularly those less advantaged, as knowing participants who should have a say in what and how they learn. The onus should be on all educational leaders to recognize, respect, and engage with the diversity of students and the knowledge and cultures that they bring to educational contexts.
- Publisher
- Word & Deed Publishing Incorporated & Edphil Books
- Relation
- Key questions for educational leaders; Chapter 27 p. 189-192
- Rights
- Copyright © 2015 Word & Deed Publishing Incorporated & Edphil Books
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Student voice; Educational leaders; Learning environments
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