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Students as Researchers: a radical approach positioning students as agents of change rather than data sources

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Description

Students as Researchers is presented as a radical alternative to conventional student consultation, in which students undertake research on their own schooling and act as agents of change. The abstract contrasts it with consultation that embeds "unwitting manipulation" and reaffirms "the compelling nature of the ``Students as Researchers'' approach". The approach is grounded in the author's joint work with a UK high school running since 1996.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Joint, sustained work between researchers and a school over time, as in the UK high school partnership developed since 1996

Constraints

  • The article's full text was not available; the account here rests on the abstract's own framing

Target Learners

  • secondary school students

Learning Goals

  • student participation in researching and improving schooling
  • democratic agency in education

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Fielding, M. (2001). Students as Radical Agents of Change. Journal of Educational Change, 2, 123–141. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017949213447
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title Students as Researchers: a radical approach positioning students as agents of change rather than data sources
description Students as Researchers is presented as a radical alternative to conventional student consultation, in which students undertake research on their own schooling and act as agents of change.
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