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- Vol 6 RE: Chapters 7, 9, 11, 14
student agencystudent voicestudent-teacher partnershipstudent researchersyouth-led inquiryshared powerstudent expertiseconsequential participationJournal article Evidence summaryAt a glance
Cook-Sather connects student voice with agency: students should not only express views but also influence analyses, decisions, and practices in education. Drawing on studies across school contexts, she describes three broad forms of partnership.
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Students can work with teachers to examine classroom practice, participate as researchers through youth-led or collaborative inquiry, and author or co-author accounts of teaching and learning. These roles position students alongside credentialed educators as critics and creators without removing educators’ professional responsibilities. Productive approaches require adults to share power, recognise students’ experience as expertise, and create channels through which insights lead to action. The article offers implications for teachers, principals, teacher educators, and researchers, including building regular feedback structures, involving students in professional learning, supporting student-led investigation, and widening opportunities to publish or present findings.
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Voice becomes agency when participation is consequential, reciprocal, inclusive, and connected to educational change.
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