Creative Partners
Arts Practice and the Potential for Pupil Voice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928613 |
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| Authors | Susan Jones (0000-0003-0639-1586, corresponding author), Christine Hall (0000-0003-2673-7484, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-188 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2009.1.2.178 |
| OpenAlex | W2141370971 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Recently in English schools the value of ‘pupil voice’ activities has been strongly promoted by the school improvement movement and by the Office for Standards in Education, the national inspection agency. A parallel and related agenda in English education policy has seen the official endorsement of the importance of developing creativity in school. This article is concerned with the potential of creative and arts activities to extend the range and types of children's and young people's opportunities to participate meaningfully in school and to have their voices heard. The article draws on data from the Creative School Change Project, an Arts Council funded investigation into the impact of the Creative Partnerships [CP] programme on whole-school change. CP funds artists and creative practitioners to work in partnership with schools in socio-economically disadvantaged areas. The authors argue that the literature that categorises and promotes pupil voice pays insufficient attention to the potential of artistic/aesthetic discourses amongst pupils in school, and that such discourses make an important contribution to democratic school cultures. They suggest that the work of CP within the group of schools identified in this article demonstrates how ‘pupil voice’ activities, now officially sanctioned in schools, might be expanded and modified by creative practice
Agency (philosophy · Creativity · Democracy · Disadvantaged · General partnership · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Work (physics · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Engineering · Psychology · Social Psychology
Words and Minds
Consulting Pupils
Doing research with children and young people who do not use speech for communication
Children's participation
Who Has the Floor? Curriculum, Teaching, and the English Student Teacher's Struggle for Voice
Transformative approaches to student voice
From ‘consulting pupils’ to ‘pupils as researchers’
| Highly cited | No |
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