Learner Voices, Perspectives, and Positionings
Providing Agency to Empower Learning
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Learner Voices, Perspectives, and Positionings
Providing Agency to Empower Learning
About this book
This book explores the multifaceted concept of learner voice in education, emphasising its significance across various contexts and historical periods. It brings together diverse perspectives from multiple authors, addressing how learner agency can shape educational practices and policies, particularly in contemporary settings.
The chapters delve into critical themes such as the influence of teachers' beliefs on student learning, the impact of polarisation in our current educational discourse and the historical voices of children in Victorian schools. Notable case studies include a narrative approach to understanding higher education students' experiences and the examination of learner voice within prison education. The book also addresses pressing issues such as the representation of marginalised voices and the importance of inclusive practices in school leadership and curriculum design. Groundbreaking content includes discussions on "epistemic violence", highlighting the need for a more nuanced, considered and critically aware approach to learner representation.
This important collection will be essential reading for educational studies students and trainee teachers, as well as educators working in further or higher education. It provides practical insights and theoretical frameworks that constitute a roadmap for strengthening diverse learners' voice and agency, thereby advancing educational equity and inclusion for all.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contributing Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Education’s purpose: Conceptions of teaching, conceptions of learning and learner voice
- 2 Why don’t they teach education at school?: Listening to learners’ voices and resisting polarisation to restore education as common ground throughout our lifetimes
- 3 Finding the voice of children past: How do we do it, and what does it tell us?
- 4 Beyond the survey metrics: A narrative approach to higher education student voice
- 5 Transitions in education: The importance of learner voice and identity
- 6 Advocating for the learner and their diverse needs
- 7 Examining how academic self-concept and agency shaped a SEND learner’s identity across the educational lifespan
- 8 Epistemic injustice and the silencing of student voices
- 9 From voice and systemic action: Addressing race and racism in a teacher education programme
- 10 Learner voice and the placement experience: Engineering a map of prison-education interactions
- 11 Global voices: Empowering students for world-class education
- 12 Empowering disabled learners’ voices and agency through universal design for learning
- 13 The role of learner voice in producing powerful and sustainable educational change
- Index