Improving Learning through Consulting Pupils

by Rudduck; Jean

• ISBN13: 9780415416160
• ISBN10: 0415416167
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Within the international movement for school improvement, pupil consultation is one of the strands that offers greatest hope. Consultation is a way of ensuring that teachers have access to their pupils’ perspectives and can lead to a transformation of teacher-pupil relationships, to significant improvements in teachers’ practices, and to pupils having a new sense of themselves as members of a community of learners. Improving Learning through Consulting Pupils discusses the potential of consultation as a strategy for signalling a more partnership-oriented relationship in teaching and learning. It also examines the challenges of introducing and sustaining consultative practices. Topics covered include: the centrality of consultation about teaching and learning in relation to broader school level concerns; national debates about young people’s right to be heard; teaching approaches that pupils believe help them to learn, those that obstruct their learning and suggestions about how individual teachers mightdevelop their teaching; the social realities of classrooms for different groups of pupils; teachers’ responses to pupil consultation; what they learn from it, the changes they can make to their practice and the difficulties they can face; and, the things that can get in the way of pupils trusting in consultation as something that can make a positive difference to their experiences of learning in school. While consultation is flourishing in many primary schools, the focus here is on secondary schools where the difficulties of introducing and sustaining consultation are often more daunting but where the benefits of doing so can be substantial. This innovative book will be of interest to all those concerned with improving classroom learning.

Table of Contents

What is Consultation and Why is it Important?

The Growth of the Pupil Voice Movement' and What it Endorses

The Project's Aims and Design

Elements of the Project

The Project's Difficulty in Resisting the Temptation to Move Outside the Classroom and Away from Teaching and Learning

What Does the Project Tell Us?

Strategies for Consultation

What Pupils Say About Teaching and Learning

Teachers' Responses to What Pupils Say

The Impact on Pupils, Teachers and Schools

The Impact on Teacher-Pupil Relationships

Developing the Work in Schools and Classroom

Constraints

The Implications: Towards a Theory of Learning

How the Research was Carried Out

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