International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School

Front Matter....Pages 1-76
Researching Student Experiences in Elementary and Secondary School: An Evolving Field of Study....Pages 1-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Introduction to Section One....Pages 79-83
Naming Student Experiences and Experiencing Student Naming....Pages 85-98
Teaching as Research: Puzzling Over Words with Fourth Graders....Pages 99-114
School Literacy and the Development of a Child Culture: Written Remnants of the “Gusto of Life”....Pages 115-142
Dissolving Learning Boundaries: The Doing, Re-Doing, and Undoing of School....Pages 143-166
“Some Things are Fair, Some Things are Not Fair, and Some Things are Not, Not Fair”: Young Children’s Experiences of ‘Unfairness’ in School....Pages 167-192
The Role of Personal Standards in Second Graders’ Moral and Academic Engagement....Pages 193-231
Mentors for Students in Elementary School: the Promise and Possibilities....Pages 233-261
“I’ve Decided to Change and it’s Just Really Hard to, Like, Show the Teachers that”....Pages 263-281
Students’ Perspectives on Good Teaching: Implications for Adult Reform Behavior....Pages 283-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Introduction to Section Two....Pages 315-319
“Boys Will Be Boys” but in what Ways? Social Class and the Development of Young Boys’ Schooling Identities....Pages 321-346
Schooling, Normalisation, and Gendered Bodies: Adolescent Boys’ and Girls’ Experiences of Gender and Schooling....Pages 347-374
Differences in Transition: Diverse Students Navigating the First Year of High School....Pages 375-403
Building Theories of Their Lives: Youth Engaged In Drama Research....Pages 405-437
How Students Learn About Right and Wrong in the First Year of a Pakistani Private School....Pages 439-462
Schooling in the Context of Difference: The Challenge of Post-Colonial Education in Ghana....Pages 463-491
Ali: Becoming A Student–A Life History....Pages 493-516
Portraits of Self and Identity Constructions: Three Chinese Girls’ Trilingual Textual Powers....Pages 517-554
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Finding Their Way: Immigrant And Refugee Students In A Toronto High School....Pages 555-575
Front Matter....Pages 577-577
Introduction to Section Three....Pages 579-585
Student Voice, Student Engagement, And School Reform....Pages 587-610
Stressed-Out Students-SOS: Youth Perspectives on Changing School Climates....Pages 611-634
Toward the Pedagogically Engaged School: Listening to Student Voice as a Positive Response to Disengagement and ‘Dropping Out’?....Pages 635-658
“It’s Not About Systems, It’s About Relationships”: Building A Listening Culture In A Primary School....Pages 659-680
Using Students’ Voices To Inform And Evaluate Secondary School Reform....Pages 681-709
Building Student Voice for School Improvement....Pages 711-726
Student Voice in School Reform: from Listening to Leadership....Pages 727-744
Clarifying the Purpose of Engaging Students as Researchers....Pages 745-774
Making It Real: Engaging Students in Active Citizenship Projects....Pages 775-804
Youth Research/Participatory Methods for Reform....Pages 805-828
Translating Researchers: Re-imagining the Work of Investigating Students’ Experiences in School....Pages 829-871