1st Edition

School Improvement What Can Pupils Tell Us?

194 Pages

by Routledge

194 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

First published in 1996, School Improvement provides, through the recorded words and experiences of pupils themselves, a picture of how teaching, learning, and the organisation of secondary schooling might be improved. By presenting first-hand the pupils’ own thoughts on crucial areas of school life, the authors emphasise the contribution that pupils can make to the quality of learning.... Read more

Introduction

1. Pupil voices and school improvement
Jean Rudduck, Roland Chaplain and Gwen Wallace

Part 2: Finding your way

2. Going to ‘the big school’: the turbulence of transition
Jean Rudduck

3. Relating to teachers
Gwen Wallace

4. Lessons, subjects and the curriculum: issues of ‘understanding’ and ‘coherence’
Jean Rudduck

Part 2: Making a commitment to learning

5. Engaging with learning
Gwen Wallace

6. The meaning of ‘working hard’ in school
Ruth Kershner

7. Homework: dilemmas and difficulties
Molly Warrington and Mike Younger

8. Making a strategic withdrawal: disengagement and self-worth protection in male pupils
Roland Chaplain

Part 3: Experiencing the pressures of learning