The Significance of Students: Can Increasing Student Voice in Schools Lead to Gains in Youth Development?.

By Dana L. Mitra. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Increasing Student Voice in High School Reform (2009, background): “Perils of Implementation While previous literature has highlighted these connections between student voice and positive youth development (Eccles and Gootman, 2002; Mitra, 2004), other literature has emphasized times when student voice ends up doing more harm than good.”
Voice, creativity, and big five personality traits: A meta-analysis (2018, background): “voice has received more scholarly attention to understand how increased student voice improves student outcomes and school structures (Mitra, 2004).”
Student-centred inquiry as curriculum as a model for field-based teacher education (2013, background): “…efforts informed by student voice increases students’ investment, ownership and consequent learning (Beaudoin 2005, Cook-Sather 2002, 2003, 2009a, b, Mitra 2004 Wehmeyer and Sands 1998); improves the effectiveness of classroom teaching (Kaba 2000, McIntyre et al. 2005, SooHoo 1995); and leads to a…”
Youth engagement in high schools: Developing a multidimensional, critical approach to improving engagement for all students (2009, background): “Another common danger in promoting youth critical engagement is adult domination (intended or unintended) and the creation of false opportunities (Mitra 2004, 2007; Silva 2001).”
How Listening to Student Voices Informs and Strengthens Social Justice Research and Practice (2014, background): “Not coincidentally, the student voice literature argues that including and honoring students’ perspectives yields richer, more authentic research results as well as a more democratic learning space that fosters positive student outcomes (Fielding, 2001, 2004; Mitra, 2004).”
Improving student wellbeing: having a say at school (2016, background): “…wellbeing and the recent and increasing international interest in initiatives that facilitate student engagement and voice at school (De Róiste et al., 2012; Fielding, 2001; Mitra, 2004), the results reported above carry implications for supporting school effectiveness and school improvement.”
Promoting Student Engagement in the Classroom (2014, background): “…and not embarrassing or demeaning students in front of the class; Murdock, Hale, & Weber, 2001), one way in which teachers can make students feel respected is by inviting them to provide feedback on their teaching and suggestions for classroom improvement (Davidson & Phelan, 1999; Mitra, 2004).”
The "Receivement Gap": School Tracking Policies and the Fallacy of the "Achievement Gap" (2009, background): “…of the student participants in the project, a group that is generally underrepresented in extant research (Cook-Sather, 2002; Dahl, 1995; Fielding, 2001, 2002; Fine, Weis, & Powell et al., 1997; Lincoln, 1995; Mitra, 2004; Raymond, 2001; Rubin & Silva, 2003; Wasley, Hampel, & Clark et al, 1997).”
Is School Participation Good for Children? Associations with Health and Wellbeing. (2012, background): “Efforts to foster student engagement and voice are evident in school reform changes in Australia (Levin, 2000), the UK (Fielding, 2001) and the US (Mitra, 2004).”
Young people, new technologies and learning at home: taking context seriously (2012, background): “Mitra, 2004 ), in national educational policy (e.”
The student voice in well-being: a case study of participatory action research in positive education (2019, background): “While we cannot make direct causal attributions, the evidence presented here suggests that student involvement was beneficial, appearing to contribute to important youth development outcomes for the young people involved (Mitra 2004).”
Student Voice in Elementary School Reform (2012, methodology): “By providing youth with opportunities to participate in school decision making that will shape their lives and the lives of their peers, increasing student voice in schools offers a way to reengage students in the school community and increase youth attachment to schools (Mitra, 2004).”