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- Title
Conclusion: The Intersection of Student Voice and Policy Research.
- Authors
MITRA, DANA L.
- Abstract
This concluding chapter examines how this book on student voice intersects with previous research about policy implementation and sustainability, focusing on three issues: (a) Legitimizing the role of young people in the policy and reform process. This book considers how to reconceptualize the role of young people in educational systems as policy actors rather than as clients. Building on theoretical concepts of positioning and reframing, it articulates how young people have the right to participate in conversations and decisions that affect their lives. (b) Preparing adults to work with young people. The book also amplifies the need to develop structures that can maximize the benefits of the partnership for young people, adults, and the policy system. While adults can create barriers to authentic student participation, student voice efforts can teach adults how to work with young people as partners. When adults refuse to partner, the book demonstrates how student voice activities can serve as a social movement to challenge adults to rethink relationships with students. (c) Sustaining ongoing student voice work. The book also considers the contexts and conditions that might enable the sustainability of successful student voice efforts. Aligning with an intermediary organization can serve as a bridge for sharing knowledge and resources between student voice efforts. Additionally, inquiry-based processes can create a structure for creating meaningful student voice work. The book focuses mostly on a particular form of inquiry--Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), which allows an exchange of ideas, critique, and expertise.
- Subjects
YOUTH in politics; YOUTH movements; STUDENT participation in administration; YOUTH &; adults; COMMUNITY-based participatory research
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 2015, Vol 117, Issue 13, p237
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146811511701304