Publications of Pupil Voice conference 2006
Please click here for some papers and presentations of the Pupil Voice conference 2006
In addition to conference papers, presentations and other outputs from the seminar series, two books and two special issues of journals are planned, as described below
1. Proposed chapters / edited books from the project
Routledge book: Get the picture: Visual research with children and young people
(Editors Pat Thomson & Michael Fielding) (patricia.thomson@nottingham.ac.uk)
This edited collection will explore the methodological, ethical, representational and theoretical issues surrounding image-based research with children and young people. It will provide well argues & illustrated resources to guide novice and experienced researchers through
- examining research conducted with children & young people & research constructed by them
- including work with photography, multimedia,drawing & other art forms & video & filmmaking
- containing a balance of theoretical & empirical material
- Target market: researchers in HEI youth & social work, health& nursing, criminology & community studies, teacher researchers.
Trentham book: Making children’s rights a reality
(EditorsJane McGregor, Non Worrall) (Jane.McGregor@educationresearch.co.uk)
This is the shorter, more critical text addressing issues such as
- Oportunities & Challenges
- Rethinking ECM
- ITE
- Active citizenship
- Student leadership
- Governance
- Paticipation in/& communities
2. Journals
Proposal for a special number of Discourse on pupil voice in educational research.
(Editors Pat Thomson & Michael Fielding)
- Overall proposal 2 page max (even shorter will do): listing rationale, framework, contributors (affiliations etc) and paper titles.
- An introductory essay.
- 6/7 essays of about 6000 words is the go.
- Comment on refereeing the papers. (The editors, of
course, have the final say, but this has never been a problem.)
If the proposal is approved Vol 28, No 3 September 2007 will be set aside for the special number. That would mean everything in final copy form would need to be with Dr Dawn Butler (production manager - dawnbutler@optusnet.com.au) by the end of March 2007.
Special Issue of Improving Schools for publication March 2007
(June 06 to referees final Oct 11th 2006)
To be co-edited by Carol Robinson, Carole Thompson, Lisa Russell, Tina Byrom (c.a.robinson@sussex.ac.uk)
Improving Schools is for all those engaged in school development, whether improving schools in difficulty or making successful schools even better. The journal includes contributions from across the world with an international readership including teachers, heads, academics, education authority staff, inspectors and consultants.
Improving Schools has created a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences. Major national policies and initiatives have been evaluated, to share good practice and to highlight problems. The journal also reports on visits to successful schools in diverse contexts, and includes book reviews on a wide range of developmental issues.
Electronic Access: Improving Schools is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://imp.sagepub.com
Length of papers accepted: Major articles (refereed, marked in the journal by ‘R’ after the title) should normally be between 3000 and 6000 words long excluding references. Shorter items such as reports on interesting developments in schools are very welcome (e.g. 1000-2000 words, preferably with photographs).
Style: Articles must be typed, double spaced, written in English and avoid discriminatory language. They should be aimed at an international audience, using a clear style, avoiding jargon. You must therefore explain points that might only be understood within your own education system. Acronyms, abbreviations and technical terms should be defined when they are first used. UK spellings are preferred. If notes are essential only use endnotes. Do not indent at the start of a new paragraph; instead, leave one line between each paragraph and at least two lines between each (sub)section and the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and printed on a separate sheet. Tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to symbols.
Figures: Please supply one set of artwork in a finished form, suitable for reproduction. Figures will not normally be redrawn by the publisher.
References should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses, as detailed in the APA style guide. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in standard APA format. For example:
Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to Read: Thinking and learning about print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Contributions to special issue of Educational Action Research
(Editor, Chris Day, please contact Pat Thomson)
Unless agreed otherwise all accepted papers become the copyright of the journal. All contributors should be aware they are addressing an international audience. Contributions are invited from practitioner researchers in schools, higher education, educational administration, social work, nursing, medicine, the police or other social settings.
Two kinds of paper are particularly welcome: [1] accounts of action research and development studies; and [2] contributions to the debate on the theory and practice of action research and associated methodologies. Readability and honest engagement with problematic issues will be among the criteria against which contributions will be judged. The journal can be construed as carrying out, through its contributors and reviewers, action research on the characteristics of effective reporting, and the Editors will, therefore, welcome exploratory forms of presentation.
All contributions will be sent to at least two referees representative of differing viewpoints in the practitioner-researcher community, one of whom will come from the contributor’s own country. Those authors whose papers are not accepted will normally receive advice on redrafting or alternative forms of publication.
Manuscripts submitted should be original, not under review by any other publication and not published elsewhere. All pages should be numbered. Footnotes to the text should be avoided. Sponsorship of research reported (e.g. by research councils, government departments and agencies, etc.) should be declared. To allow refereeing, all submissions must be properly formatted for anonymous reviewing. Authors' names and institutions should be typed on a separate sheet and submitted with the manuscript. The full postal and email address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints should be included also.
Each paper should be accompanied on separate sheets by an abstract of 100 to 150 words. For further guidance on the journal style, please visit:
Contributions to Forum (symposium journals)
A journal promoting comprehensive education 3-19
Please contact Jane McGregor (jane.mcgregor@educationreserach.co.uk) or Michael Fielding (m.fielding@sussex.ac.uk)
Forum has for over forty years been the pre-eminent focal point for topical and informed analysis - very often highly forthright and critical - of all aspects of United Kingdom government policy as it influences the education of children from primary through to higher education. FORUM - a journal-cum-magazine - vigorously campaigns for the universal provision of state-provided education, and seeks to identify and expose all attempts to overturn the gains of the past thirty years. Every teacher, headteacher, administrator, parent, or governor should read this exciting publication.
Contributions are not drawn only from the familiar sources in universities and colleges, but also in large numbers from teachers, writing of their own experiences in the classroom.
