Student Voice in School Reform: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships That Strengthen Schools and Empower Youth - Rilegato

Mitra, Dana L.

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ISBN 10: 0791473198 ISBN 13: 9780791473191

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2008

Riassunto

High schools continue to be places that isolate, alienate, and disengage students. But what would happen if students were viewed as part of the solution in schools rather than part of the problem? This book examines the emergence of "student voice" at one high school in the San Francisco Bay area where educators went straight to the source and asked the students to help.

Struggling, like many high schools, with how to improve student outcomes, educators at Whitman High School decided to invite students to participate in the reform process. Dana L. Mitra describes the evolution of student voice at Whitman, showing that the students enthusiastically created partnerships with teachers and administrators, engaged in meaningful discussion about why so many failed or dropped out, and partnered with teachers and principals to improve learning for themselves and their peers. In documenting the difference that student voice made, this book helps expand ideas of distributed leadership, professional learning communities, and collaboration. The book also contributes much needed research on what student voice initiatives look like in practice and provides powerful evidence of ways in which young people can increase their sense of agency and their sense of belonging in school.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dana L. Mitra is Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State at University Park.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0791473198
• ISBN 13: 9780791473191
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 132
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile