Student Voice: Some Resources
This is not a complete bibliography. It is the beginnings of an exercise to map the field of work that speaks to the active participation of students in school reform and community development.
These resources also intended to assist colleagues undertaking practitioner or graduate research.
Please note that a few of these references are incomplete. This is work-in–progress.
We would be pleased to hear from anyone who has resources to add.
Email: patricia.thomson@nottingham.ac.uk
Please click here for student voice resources (or download as word document).
Resources for schools:
| Macbeath,J, Demetriou,H, Rudduck,J, Myers,K (2003) | Consulting Pupils: A toolkit for teachers . Cambridge, Pearson Publishing |
| Fielding, M. & Bragg, S. (2003) | Students as Researchers: Making a Difference.Cambridge, Pearson Publishing. Resources developed from the extensive Teaching & Learning Research project. Comprising research evidence, examples of methods of consultation and a CD with templates that can be adapted. |
| www.symposium-journals.co.uk | Special issue of Forum – journal for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education- on Student Voice. Free to download |
| www.teachernet.gov.uk | Pupil Participation Working together: giving children and young people a say (DfES 2004) Free guidance booklet and poster |
| education@oxfam.org.uk. | Education for Global Citizenship: A Guide for Schools - new free booklet for teachers |
| www.standards.dfes.gov.uk Research digest |
Pupil voice;comfortable and uncomfortable learning for teachers. McIntyre,D; Pedder,D: Rudduck. J (2005) Research Papers in Education 20 (2) pp.149-168 |
| www.schoolcouncils.org | School Council Handbook for Secondary Students. Companion ‘toolkit’ and video available |
| Editor Roger Holdsworth. 12 Brooke Street Northcote. Victoria Australia | CONNECT magazine presents challenging questions around active citizenship for students, with details of projects www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/EPM/YRC/publications/connect.shtml |
Websites with useful links
Students as Researchers Resources
The research process
- Find a focus/develop questions (that are manageable and interesting)
- Think about your own experience and that of others in that area
- Decide what is the best way to investigate the topic
- Design the research tool e.g. interview, photographs, written responses
- Run a pilot to test your ideas for data collection
- Gather evidence (data)
- Sift and analyse the data
- Make conclusions
- Report of findings
- Follow up the findings
Tips from Students Researching Students
- You only get answers to the questions you ask. Be sure to ask the same question in different ways.
- Be careful how you word your questions. Poor questions get poor answers. Questions that lead people can only give you answers you want to hear.
- Survey teachers and students, especially on the same issues. There are big differences in each group's experience of school - and those differences matter.
- Explain what your research involves and why it's important. Talk to both students and teachers in advance of administering the survey. Remind students that it's not a test - or a joke. Tell them how you'll use the results.
- Use a free online survey website. Students and teachers can answer surveys online and get organized data back immediately. Try SurveyMonkey.com
Adapted from here [PDF].
Consulting pupils: a toolkit for teachers (Macbeath et al, 2003)
Goes into the pros and cons of different research methods
www.studentsasresearchers.nexus.edu.au
Stories from student researchers and teachers
www.soundout.org/research
Very good links to a variety of examples of student voice projects, mainly in the USA
www.consultingpupils.co.uk
A major university research project based in Cambridge, some interesting newsletters
