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Routledge eBooks, Jun 10, 2022

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, i... more A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Engiish.

... against a culture of learning, how peer group cultures and their definitions of masculinity a... more ... against a culture of learning, how peer group cultures and their definitions of masculinity and femininity play a part in shaping patterns of achievement, how policies ... Their brief was to establish partnerships with school staff and encourage joint working on initiatives to ...

FORUM, 2001

This Special Issue looks at new developments within an area of practice that FORUM, with its rich... more This Special Issue looks at new developments within an area of practice that FORUM, with its rich history of advocacy for genuinely comprehensive public education, has always been supportive of, namely 'Student Voice'. In the past, we have tended to approach student voice from either the standpoint of young people being given greater responsibility for their own learning through a more imaginative and flexible pedagogy, or we have concentrated on ways in which institutional forms of student engagement, such as school councils, could develop a more authentic collective voice that would lead, if not to a more democratic, then at least to more engaged forms of institutional and personal learning. Those concerns and aspirations remain. What is particularly interesting here is the fact that some of the new developments presented by a range of contributors seem to provide a bridge between the individual/pedagogic and the collective/school council practices that have so often provided the two poles of past student voice work. Now, at least within many of the examples explored and celebrated within this Special Issue, there is a sense in which not only the previously forbidden area of teaching and learning is becoming a legitimate focus of enquiry from the standpoint of students as well as teachers, but also that the roles of teachers and students are beginning to become less exclusive and excluding of each other. Similarly, there is an emerging interconnectedness between and expansion of the arenas of classroom life, the wider contexts of the school as a whole, and community spaces and practices that exist outside the school. The reciprocity between student and teacher, school and community that have always been at the heart of a widely and richly conceived notion of education seems to be expressing itself in new ways and new forms that may hold out much hope for the future We open our Student Voice Special Issue with three articles by young people who have been involved in some of the creative and vibrant developments alluded to above. Pupils at Wheatcroft Primary School in Hertford give a hugely uplifting and inspiring account of Working as a Team; Beth Crane's advocacy of the 'Students as Researchers' initiative as means of Revolutionising School-based Research and her fellow ex-Sharnbrook Upper School student, Chris Harding's, insistence that 'Students as Researchers' is as important as the National Curriculum lay appropriately challenging and exciting foundations for the rest of the Special Issue. Louise Raymond's overview of the groundbreaking 'Students as Researchers' initiative in her Student Involvement in School Improvement: From Data Source to Significant Voice, provides a fascinating case study of how a small but radical student-led initiative can grow into something that has the potential to transform the nature of curriculum renewal and organisational learning. Leora

Journal of Literary Studies, 1996

... [t]he exotic charm of another system of thought is the limitation of our own, the stark impos... more ... [t]he exotic charm of another system of thought is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that. (Foucault 1970: xv) ... Most of the characters, albeit in different ways, are readers or interpreters of the first type. These include Abo, Ubertino, Jorge, Gui and Alinardo. ...

Educational Action Research, 2007

The notion of ‘pupil voice’ reproduces the binary distinction between adult and child, pupil and ... more The notion of ‘pupil voice’ reproduces the binary distinction between adult and child, pupil and teacher and therefore serves to reinforce ‘conventional’ constructions of childhood. The concept of ‘voice’ invokes an essentialist construction of self that is singular, coherent, consistent and rational. It is arguably more useful to reflect on self and identity as socially constructed, hybrid and multiple. This

This dissertation grapples With the activity of critical production. It answers not to an interpr... more This dissertation grapples With the activity of critical production. It answers not to an interpretation which would constitute the writer within· the institutionalised category of effect and object of knowledge, but rather to an explosion, a proliferation of critical paths at the limit of the doxa: a veritable labyrinth.

Understanding and supporting troubled and troublesome girls and young women, 2005

During 1995, we participated in the production of 18 English Readers for Speakers of Other Langua... more During 1995, we participated in the production of 18 English Readers for Speakers of Other Languages. The English Readers were developed for a nongovernmental organization working in the broad area of adult basic education in SouthAfrica. The project emerged out of a specificset of political, historical, and institutional circumstances that shaped and constrained the production ofthe Readers. It was implicated in a complexset of interconnected struggles among actors differentlypositionedinvarious social practices and institutional sites. Therefore, we locate the project withinthe context of the new SouthAfrica. ' In thelast5 years, thenew SouthAfrica has sustained the optimismassociated withthe honeymoon period of liberation, fueling the process of dismantling apartheid. This political process is marked by the unbanning of theAfrican National' Congress in 1990, as well as otherliberation movements, and multipartynegotiationsthat culminated in thefirst democratic election and the inaugurationor Nelson Mandela as the president of the Governmentof National Unity in 1994. These historic politicalevents were rvu

Routledge eBooks, Jun 10, 2022

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, i... more A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Engiish.

... against a culture of learning, how peer group cultures and their definitions of masculinity a... more ... against a culture of learning, how peer group cultures and their definitions of masculinity and femininity play a part in shaping patterns of achievement, how policies ... Their brief was to establish partnerships with school staff and encourage joint working on initiatives to ...

FORUM, 2001

This Special Issue looks at new developments within an area of practice that FORUM, with its rich... more This Special Issue looks at new developments within an area of practice that FORUM, with its rich history of advocacy for genuinely comprehensive public education, has always been supportive of, namely 'Student Voice'. In the past, we have tended to approach student voice from either the standpoint of young people being given greater responsibility for their own learning through a more imaginative and flexible pedagogy, or we have concentrated on ways in which institutional forms of student engagement, such as school councils, could develop a more authentic collective voice that would lead, if not to a more democratic, then at least to more engaged forms of institutional and personal learning. Those concerns and aspirations remain. What is particularly interesting here is the fact that some of the new developments presented by a range of contributors seem to provide a bridge between the individual/pedagogic and the collective/school council practices that have so often provided the two poles of past student voice work. Now, at least within many of the examples explored and celebrated within this Special Issue, there is a sense in which not only the previously forbidden area of teaching and learning is becoming a legitimate focus of enquiry from the standpoint of students as well as teachers, but also that the roles of teachers and students are beginning to become less exclusive and excluding of each other. Similarly, there is an emerging interconnectedness between and expansion of the arenas of classroom life, the wider contexts of the school as a whole, and community spaces and practices that exist outside the school. The reciprocity between student and teacher, school and community that have always been at the heart of a widely and richly conceived notion of education seems to be expressing itself in new ways and new forms that may hold out much hope for the future We open our Student Voice Special Issue with three articles by young people who have been involved in some of the creative and vibrant developments alluded to above. Pupils at Wheatcroft Primary School in Hertford give a hugely uplifting and inspiring account of Working as a Team; Beth Crane's advocacy of the 'Students as Researchers' initiative as means of Revolutionising School-based Research and her fellow ex-Sharnbrook Upper School student, Chris Harding's, insistence that 'Students as Researchers' is as important as the National Curriculum lay appropriately challenging and exciting foundations for the rest of the Special Issue. Louise Raymond's overview of the groundbreaking 'Students as Researchers' initiative in her Student Involvement in School Improvement: From Data Source to Significant Voice, provides a fascinating case study of how a small but radical student-led initiative can grow into something that has the potential to transform the nature of curriculum renewal and organisational learning. Leora

Journal of Literary Studies, 1996

... [t]he exotic charm of another system of thought is the limitation of our own, the stark impos... more ... [t]he exotic charm of another system of thought is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that. (Foucault 1970: xv) ... Most of the characters, albeit in different ways, are readers or interpreters of the first type. These include Abo, Ubertino, Jorge, Gui and Alinardo. ...

Educational Action Research, 2007

The notion of ‘pupil voice’ reproduces the binary distinction between adult and child, pupil and ... more The notion of ‘pupil voice’ reproduces the binary distinction between adult and child, pupil and teacher and therefore serves to reinforce ‘conventional’ constructions of childhood. The concept of ‘voice’ invokes an essentialist construction of self that is singular, coherent, consistent and rational. It is arguably more useful to reflect on self and identity as socially constructed, hybrid and multiple. This

This dissertation grapples With the activity of critical production. It answers not to an interpr... more This dissertation grapples With the activity of critical production. It answers not to an interpretation which would constitute the writer within· the institutionalised category of effect and object of knowledge, but rather to an explosion, a proliferation of critical paths at the limit of the doxa: a veritable labyrinth.

Understanding and supporting troubled and troublesome girls and young women, 2005

During 1995, we participated in the production of 18 English Readers for Speakers of Other Langua... more During 1995, we participated in the production of 18 English Readers for Speakers of Other Languages. The English Readers were developed for a nongovernmental organization working in the broad area of adult basic education in SouthAfrica. The project emerged out of a specificset of political, historical, and institutional circumstances that shaped and constrained the production ofthe Readers. It was implicated in a complexset of interconnected struggles among actors differentlypositionedinvarious social practices and institutional sites. Therefore, we locate the project withinthe context of the new SouthAfrica. ' In thelast5 years, thenew SouthAfrica has sustained the optimismassociated withthe honeymoon period of liberation, fueling the process of dismantling apartheid. This political process is marked by the unbanning of theAfrican National' Congress in 1990, as well as otherliberation movements, and multipartynegotiationsthat culminated in thefirst democratic election and the inaugurationor Nelson Mandela as the president of the Governmentof National Unity in 1994. These historic politicalevents were rvu