Making Waves: a cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland’s schools

Beth Cross* (Corresponding Author), Greg Manion, Rachel K Shanks

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Abstract

This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a ten-year period. The comparison reveals how “organic” aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how new materialist perspectives offer ways to attend differently to the recursive, relational dynamics of participation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-93
Number of pages19
JournalChildhood
Volume9
Issue number1
Early online date4 Dec 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Study Two was funded by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland. Link: https://www.cypcs.org.uk/ufiles/achievement-and-attainment.pdf. Its
follow-on project was funded by Education Scotland (2018). Link: https://education.gov.scot/improvement/Documents/learner-participation.pdf. Study Three was funded by Teaching and Learning Scotland. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/53932/

Keywords

  • Participation
  • decision-making
  • representation
  • social material critique
  • agential realism

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