Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education

Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education
Author: Simon Lygo-Baker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030208249

This book examines the importance of exploring the varied and diverse perspectives of student experiences. In both academic institutions and everyday discourse, the notion of the ‘student voice’ is an ever-present reminder of the importance placed upon the student experience in Higher Education: particularly in a context where the financial burden of undertaking a university education continues to grow. The editors and contributors explore how notions of the ‘student voice’ as a single, monolithic entity may in fact obscure divergence in the experiences of students. Placing so much emphasis on the ‘student voice’ may lead educators and policy makers to miss important messages communicated – or consciously uncommunicated – through student actions. This book also explores ways of working in partnership with students to develop their own experiences. It is sure to be of interest and value to scholars of the student experience and its inherent diversity.

The Power of Voice in Schools

The Power of Voice in Schools
Author: Russ Quaglia
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416629378

For nearly four decades, Russ Quaglia has been laying the groundwork to inform, reform, and transform schools through student voice. That deep commitment is reflected in this inspirational book. Quaglia and his coauthors at the Quaglia Institute for School Voice & Aspirations deftly synthesize the thoughts and feelings of hundreds of thousands of stakeholders and offer a vision for schools where everyone's voice matters. They posit that students, teachers, administrators, and parents must work and learn together in ways that promote deep understanding and creativity. Making this collaborative effort successful, however, requires widespread recognition that all stakeholders have something to teach, and they all have a role to play in moving the entire school forward. We must abandon the "us versus them" fallacy in education; there is only "us." To that end, The Power of Voice in Schools offers a way forward that can be used in any school and * Addresses the importance of everyone's voice in the school community. * Articulates the lessons learned from listening to these voices over the past decade. * Suggests concrete, practical strategies for combined teams of students, teachers, parents, and administrators to make a difference together. This book reflects the dream of a true partnership in listening, learning, and leading together. When the potential of voice is fully realized, schools will look and feel different. Cooperation will replace competition and conflict, collaboration will replace isolation, and confidence will replace insecurity. Most important, the entire school community will work in partnership with one another for the well-being of students and teachers.

Pedagogies of With-ness

Pedagogies of With-ness
Author: Linda Hogg
Publisher: Myers Education Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1975503104

Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of with-ness, a way of knowing, being, and acting. By centralizing the all-too-often suppressed wisdom of youth, teachers and researchers engage in new forms of critique and possibility-making with students. Editors reflect on this central theme, exploring the dimensions of such pedagogies of with-ness. Through this book, teachers are invited to imagine pedagogy under this new framework, actively committed to students, their voice, and mutual engagement. Click HERE to watch the editors discuss their book. Perfect for courses such as: Social Foundations | Student-Teacher Partnerships | Secondary Methods | Service Learning Leadership Ethnic Studies | Democracy and Civics | Social Justice and Education | Student Voice in Classrooms/Education | Ethical Issues in Education | Leadership for Social Justice

An Innovative Approach to Voice Education and Voice Therapy

An Innovative Approach to Voice Education and Voice Therapy
Author: Hugo Lycke
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1036412652

This innovative manual provides 148 Figures and Tables, deducted from a recently enlarged database of more than 1.000 phonetograms (Voice Range Profiles) from professional voice users (singers, actors, and dancers) of both genders, of ages between 8 and 88 years. The E.T.M. (Eclectic Therapy Method) offers the possibility to objectively evaluate, in real time, the capacities of a given voice, as expressed by the different parameters for each tone of the vocal range, and to expand them to their maximum potentiality, considering the general rules of vocal hygiene. This way, the interested reader can compare their own results of voice analysis, voice education or voice therapy with the exceptional data provided in this study.

Student Voice in School Reform

Student Voice in School Reform
Author: Dana L. Mitra
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0791478947

High schools continue to be places that isolate, alienate, and disengage students. But what would happen if students were viewed as part of the solution in schools rather than part of the problem? This book examines the emergence of "student voice" at one high school in the San Francisco Bay area where educators went straight to the source and asked the students to help. Struggling, like many high schools, with how to improve student outcomes, educators at Whitman High School decided to invite students to participate in the reform process. Dana L. Mitra describes the evolution of student voice at Whitman, showing that the students enthusiastically created partnerships with teachers and administrators, engaged in meaningful discussion about why so many failed or dropped out, and partnered with teachers and principals to improve learning for themselves and their peers. In documenting the difference that student voice made, this book helps expand ideas of distributed leadership, professional learning communities, and collaboration. The book also contributes much needed research on what student voice initiatives look like in practice and provides powerful evidence of ways in which young people can increase their sense of agency and their sense of belonging in school.

The Voice of Liberal Learning

The Voice of Liberal Learning
Author: Michael Oakeshott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780865973237

To those weary and wary of the cacophony about what's wrong with education in America and what ought to be done about it, Oakeshott's voice beckons. As usual, his approach to the subject is subtle, comprehensive, and radical -- in the sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root, Oakeshott believed, is the very nature of learning itself and, concomitantly, the means (as distinct from the method) by which the life of learning is discovered, cultivated, and pursued. As Oakeshott has written, "This, then, is what we are concerned with: adventures in human self-understanding. Not the bare protestation that a human being is a self-conscious, reflective intelligence and that he does not live by bread alone, but the actual enquiries, utterances, and actions in which human beings have expressed their understanding of the human condition. This is the stuff of what has come to be called a liberal' education -- liberal' because it is liberated from the distracting business of satisfying contingent wants." Includes a foreword by Timothy Fuller that reiterates the timelessness of Oakeshott's reflections amid the continuing clamour that characterises discourse about liberal education.

Student Voice

Student Voice
Author: Russell J. Quaglia
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-08-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483379779

Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students! When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals—and when students know they’re being heard, they engage meaningfully in their own academic success. Using examples drawn from student surveys, focus groups, observations, and interviews, this groundbreaking book presents a blueprint for a successful partnership between educators and students. You’ll discover how to: Ask the right questions—and understand how to build from the answers Engage students in decision-making and improvement-related processes Implement the Aspirations Framework to guide students toward their full potential

Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community
Author: Nicole Mockler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319019856

This work interrupts the current “consulting students” discourse that positions students as service clients and thus renders more problematic the concept of student voice in ways that it might be sustained as a democratic process. It looks at student voice holistically across realms of classroom practices, higher education, practitioner inquiry and policy formulation. The authors render problematic the “empowerment” rhetoric that is the dominant and insufficient narrative justifying consulting children and young people. They explore the many contradictions and ambiguities associating with recruiting and encouraging them to participate and the varying impacts of different circumstances on the ways in which student voice projects are enacted. They perceive that it is possible for student voice projects to be subverted from both above and below as varying stakeholders with varying purposes struggle to manage and control projects. Importantly, the book reports on research that identifies and highlights conditions for initiating and sustaining student voice and include “beyond school” dimensions that consider young people as “audiences” who can inform community facilities, their development and design as well as undergraduate students in universities. These cases are not reported as celebratory, but rather act as narratives that illuminate the many challenges facing those who chose to work with young people in authentic ways. It both advances methodologies for engaging young people as active agents in the design and interpretation of research that concerns them and offers a critique of those methods that see young people as the objects of research, where the data is mined for purposes that do not recognise that students are the consequential stakeholders with respect to decisions made in their interests.​

FULL VOICE Workbook - Introductory Level

FULL VOICE Workbook - Introductory Level
Author: Nikki Loney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781897539125

The FULL VOICE(R) Workbooks have been researched and developed for the young vocal student. Every workbook includes technical exercises, music theory, rhythm reading, ear-training, sight singing, performance assessments and MORE! FULL VOICE WORKBOOKS are a comprehensive, all-in-one musical supplement for your repertoire studies. "My books arrived! Starting my kiddos next week. I am a 35-year veteran teacher and I wish I had written these. Bravo and thank you!" K. Lollar, Odessa, TX "...Since incorporating Full Voice curriculum and suggested repertoire in our school, our retention of vocal students has more than doubled! The students love the lesson plans, weekly worksheets, the warm-ups and sight reading. Full Voice makes voice lessons fun!" Rachael Richter, Director Gulf Breeze School of Music, Florida. FULL VOICE(R) Introductory level was specifically developed for young students ages 6-8 who are new to music lessons. This level is a perfect fit for private voice lessons and Introductory small group vocal classes. This level includes: introduction to tonic sol-fa introduction to reading and writing notes clapping and counting basic rhythms singing steps and skips