"Learning about research was confusing until we started creating our own questions and research" : enacting student voice through a 'Students as Enquirers' project

Wall, Kate and Hanna, Amy and McCrorie, Kath and Quirke, William and Lauder-Scott, Nova and Sims, Rebekah and Ross, Lorna and Elizabeth and Marysia and Brooke and Amy and Freya and Sophie (2024) "Learning about research was confusing until we started creating our own questions and research" : enacting student voice through a 'Students as Enquirers' project. Curriculum Journal, 35 (1). pp. 137-140. ISSN 0958-5176 (https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...)

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Abstract

Despite Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN 1989) being common parlance in Scottish schools, children often remain positioned with little voice or power to make decisions, especially in dialogue about teaching, learning, and curriculum (Flutter, 2007; Leat and Reid 2012). Students as Researchers tackles these critiques by recognising children as agentic rights holders who have expertise the adults do not (Bakhtiar, et al. 2023). This approach is emancipatory and radical; through the research process students develop enquiry skills, with opportunities to engage with self and others in novel, creative ways (Fielding and Bragg, 2003). This paper reports on a Students as Enquirers project at a Scottish high school. Offering children’s accounts of engagement in their own voices – something missing within much of the academic work on such initiatives – we exemplify the reflexive process undertaken and give insight into the effectiveness of the process and key learnings that arose.

ORCID iDs

Wall, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0714-9177, Hanna, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1101-5211, McCrorie, Kath ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-3873, Quirke, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6734-7379, Lauder-Scott, Nova ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9492-8160, Sims, Rebekah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3151-7315, Ross, Lorna, Elizabeth, Marysia, Brooke, Amy, Freya and Sophie;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:87034
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    31 March 2024
    Published
    18 December 2023
    Published Online
    8 November 2023
    Accepted
    7 November 2023
    Submitted
    Notes:Copyright © 2023 Owner. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Wall, K, Hanna, A, McCrorie, K, Quirke, W, Quirke, W, Scott, N & Sims, R 2023, '“Learning about research was confusing until we started creating our own questions and research”: enacting student voice through a ‘Students as Enquirers’ project', Curriculum Journal, which will be published in final form on the journal website. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
    Subjects:Education > Theory and practice of education > Secondary Education. High schools
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:23 Oct 2023 16:24
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 14:05
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/87034
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