As a pathway towards enfranchisement of students as full humans, student voice in schools is one avenue. Others include youth engagement throughout society, including civic, economic, cultural, recreational, and familial activities. Further still, the creation of advanced structures of support for young people, including training, funding, and personal support programs, will help take society there.
More specifically, there are many ways that students and adults can move schools towards transformation. Here are a few different takes on this from my blog:
- An Intro to the Student Voice Movement
- A New Vision for Students in School Reform
- 65 Ways Students Can Change Schools
- 50 Ways Adults Can Support Student Voice
- 30 Ways Students Can Be Partners in Schools
- Teaching Meaningful Student Involvement
- Students Assessing Student Voice
- Transformative Spheres of Meaningful Student Involvement
- All Student Voice IS NOT Created Equal
- 51 Ways to Tokenize Student Voice
- Adultism in Schools
- Adultcentrism in Schools
- When Student Voice Projects Fail
Ultimately though, the most powerful step any of us can take is to transform the ways we see and treat children and youth every single day. If every one of us changed our own attitudes and behaviors, we would see the complete engagement of young people emerge as a new cultural norm within a generation. More importantly though, we would continue to influence and motivate succeeding generations of children and youth as they change the world they live in.
I believe there is no greater action we can take.
Written by Adam Fletcher, this article was originally posted to http://commonaction.blogspot.com. Learn more at adamfletcher.net!
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