1st Edition
Learner Voices, Perspectives, and Positionings Providing Agency to Empower Learning
Preface by Series Editor
Stephen Ward
Foreword
Richard Woolley
Chapter 1: Education’s purpose: Conceptions of teaching, conceptions of learning and learner voice
Peter Gossman, Anastasia Kennett and Sharon Smith
Chapter 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
Sara Dornan, Stuart Gallagher, Lucy Gibson, Mia Griffin, Niall Harris and Jessica Jones
Chapter 3: Finding the voice of children past: How do we do it, and what does it tell us?
Ruth Felstead
Chapter 4: Beyond the survey metrics: A narrative approach to higher education student voice
Pai Usowicz and Ellie Hill
Chapter 5: Transitions in education: The importance of learner voice and identity
Joanne Smith and Anastasia Kennett
Chapter 6: Advocating for the learner and their diverse needs
Sharon Smith
Chapter 7: Examining how academic self-concept and agency shaped a SEND learner's identity across the educational lifespan
Rebecca Russon and Alexandra Sewell
Chapter 8: Epistemic injustice and the silencing of student voices
Jeremiah Adebolajo Olusola
Chapter 9: From voice and systemic action: Addressing race and racism in a teacher education programme
Elena Lengthorn, Rebecca Davidge and Rachael Moore
Chapter 10: Learner voice and the placement experience: Engineering a map of prison-education interactions
Emily Davis and Simon Taylor
Chapter 11: Global voices: Empowering students for world-class education
Madeleine Findon and Rabiat Malik
Chapter 12: Empowering disabled learners’ voices and agency through universal design for learning
Seán Bracken, Alice Hopkins, Anastasia Kennett, Harriet Lawrence, Emma Richardson, Kirsty Wedgbury and Christian T. Wilson
Chapter 13: The role of learner voice in producing powerful and sustainable educational change
Marie Stephenson
Biography
Simon Taylor is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at the University of Worcester. He specialises in creativity and cultural education, collaborative research and partnerships. His most recent publication is entitled Creativity in the Early Years: Engaging Children Aged 0–5.
Seán Bracken is Doctoral Programme Lead for the College of Education Culture and Society at the University of Worcester and an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University Australia. He is co-founder of the International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education (INCLUDE) and coordinates the Inclusion by Design research group at the University of Worcester (UW).
