Improving Learning Through Consulting Pupils

by Jean Rudduck, Donald McIntyre

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 high-profile Teaching and Learning Research Programme, this book offers a discussion of the potential of consultation as a strategy for signalling a more partnership-oriented relationship in teaching and learning - which helps pupils to articulate and express their views and feel that they have something useful to contribute to the management of classroom learning. The challenges of introducing and sustaining consultative practices are confronted, focusing particularly on secondary schools and include the problem of finding time to consult and of coping with the uncertainty that the change in power relationships brings when pupils and teachers embark on what is for many a new way of working together.

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First published March 30, 2007