Improving Learning through Consulting PupilsPupil consultation 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. In England, pupil involvement is at the heart of current government education policy and is a key dimension of both citizenship education and personalised learning. Drawing on research carried out as part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme, 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:
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. |
Contents
What does the research tell us? 23 | |
What pupils say about teachers and teacherpupil | |
What pupils say about classroom teaching and learning 57 | |
What pupils say about their own teachers teaching 74 | |
What pupils say about conditions for their learning 85 | |
What pupils say about being consulted 103 | |
Teachers responses to what pupils say 118 | |
The impact of pupil consultation on pupils and teachers 139 | |
Reservations anxieties and constraints 154 | |
Conditions for developing consultation 168 | |
What are the overall implications? 181 | |
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