The session builds on earlier research (Hall 2015) and poses the following question: If students could define it what might student voice look like and why? The objectives will: 1.Review new research exploring what student voice might mean from an individual’s perspective across diverse environments and curriculum settings; 2. Consider whether we have the ‘transformational’ or the ‘tokenistic’ (Rudduck 2006); 3. Identify ways in which those elements that ‘inhibit agency and diminish the hope of change’ (Frost 2008 p. 355) might be overcome; and 4. Encourage you to explore where there are opportunities to engage in meaningful dialogue and partnership with that ‘voice’. [References if required: Frost R. (2008). Developing student participation research and leadership: the HCD Student Partnership. School Leadership and Management: formerly School Organisation 28 4 353-368. Hall V. J. (2015). Exploring teacher–student interactions: communities of practice ecological learning systems – or something else? Journal of Further and Higher Education 1-13. Rudduck J. (2006) The past the papers and the project. Educational Review 58 2 131-143.]
