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Student voice and the school hierarchy: the disconnect between senior leaders and teachers

Skerritt, Craig orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3695-758X, O'Hara, Joe orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1956-7640, Brown, Martin orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5436-354X, McNamara, Gerry orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9725-9304 and O'Brien, Shivaun orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3095-7455 (2021) Student voice and the school hierarchy: the disconnect between senior leaders and teachers. Oxford Review of Education, 48 (5). pp. 606-621. ISSN 0305-4985

Abstract
This paper shows how the commitment of senior leadership teams to student voice is not necessarily shared by teachers. As part of a wider study, this paper presents qualitative data generated through interviews with school staff in one Irish post-primary school with a strong culture of student voice to illustrate the discrepancy that can exist between senior leaders and teachers in terms of how they embrace, enact, and experience student voice. Student voice customs can be rhetorical, perhaps even exaggerated by some, and peripheral to others, and positions on student voice are often determined by positions in the school hierarchy. As student voice remains considerably underdeveloped in Irish postprimary schools despite Irish education and most Irish schools becoming replete with student-centred discourses, this paper provides one possible way of making sense of the current state of play. More broadly, it points to how different actors work on and with student voice in different ways.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Student voice; hierarchy; consultation; enactment; policy actors; Ireland
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of Policy & Practice
Research Institutes and Centres > EQI - Centre for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2021.2003189
Copyright Information:© 2021 The Authors.
ID Code:29649
Deposited On:29 Feb 2024 16:08 by Melissa Lynch . Last Modified 29 Feb 2024 16:08
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