The Last Place to Look: The Place of Pupil Councils within Citizen Participation in Scottish Schools

Autor/inn/en	Cross, Beth; Hulme, Moira; McKinney, Stephen
Titel	The Last Place to Look: The Place of Pupil Councils within Citizen Participation in Scottish Schools
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 40 (2014) 5, S.628-648 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2014.963039
Schlagwörter	Citizen Participation; Foreign Countries; Mixed Methods Research; Curriculum; Excellence in Education; Educational Change; Ethnography; Barriers; Correlation; Student Government; Governance; Curriculum Design; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Ausland; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Lernerfolg; Bildungsreform; Ethnografie; Korrelation; Schülerparlament; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Lehrplangestaltung
Abstract	This article critically examines pupil councils as a means of developing pupils' citizenship participation. It draws on findings across two research projects. The first study is a mixed method study commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) that reviews the range of participatory activities in Scottish schools and their contribution to Scotland's major curriculum revision, the Curriculum for Excellence (CFE). The second is a longer ethnographic study examining young people's experience of participation projects in more detail. The findings lend strength to the argument that pupil councils as a stand-alone approach are not an effective means of citizenship participation. When pupil councils are complemented by other participation activity across spheres of school interaction, young people's understanding of and interest in participation can be greatly enhanced. The article examines the cross curricular linkages schools are making, the barriers that impede such linkages and the benefits derived from successful coordinated approaches in light of criteria for "graduated participation" developed through decades of work internationally on children's participation. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10