1st Edition

Student Voice and School Governance Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults

By Marc Brasof Copyright 2015
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood. Students are rarely invited to lead school reform efforts, and when they are, their voice is silenced by the structural arrangements and socio-cultural conditions found in schools. This volume investigates problems with the neoliberal school reform movement, and how youth-adult... Read more

Foreword by Dana Mitra  Introduction: Changing Change 1: Why School Reform Needs Student Voice  2: Studying Student Leadership Capacity Building  3: Introducing Madison High School  4: The State of School Address 5 : Reynold v. 1776 Post  6: Leadership Team  7: Active Citizenship Unit of Study  8: Modeling the Values and Behaviors that Encourage and Discourage Student Leadership Capacity Building  9: The Coursework that Spread the Principles, Beliefs and Norms of Student Voice and Democracy

Biography

Marc Brasof is Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Leadership of Education Equity and Excellence at Arcadia University, PA, USA.

"Student Voice and School Governance: Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults, as a case study, is grounded in organizational learning, distributed leadership, student voice, and democratic principles as theoretical frameworks to guide school reform. .."Doctrina Perpetua", meaning "learning forever", is written on the wall of MHS’s Supreme Court room, and can serve to inspire all schools to not give up, but rather to keep searching and learning for models of school reform to emulate. Student Voice and School Governance: Distributing Leadership to Youth and Adults inspired me to do just that."- Sharon Wilbur, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma, JEPPA, Vol 6 Issue 1