Disrupting student voice in education research through music
Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology. 2016;8(1) DOI 10.7577/rerm.2142
Journal Title: Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
ISSN: 1892-042X (Online)
Publisher: Oslo University College
LCC Subject Category: Education: Theory and practice of education
Country of publisher: Norway
Language of fulltext: English, Norwegian
Full-text formats available: PDF
AUTHORS
Stewart Riddle
(School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood, University of Southern Queensland)
EDITORIAL INFORMATION
Time From Submission to Publication: 4 weeks
Abstract | Full Text
<p>Education policy in the contemporary context tends to produce reductive, oversimplified and essentialist notions of classrooms, teachers and students. An emphasis on quantifiable big data that provides for ‘evidence-based practice’ and focus on ‘what works’ permeates the education machine and limits the boundaries of what can be known. Yet the complex arrangement of policies, politics, philosophies, pedagogies, practices and people that we label the ‘classroom’ provides for rich study of the multiple ways that pedagogic encounters might be experienced by young people. This paper seeks to engage with the notions of student voice and agency within an alternative context of learning – an urban senior secondary music college. Experimenting in conceptualising classrooms as moments of becoming, music is proposed as a performative method for interrogating notions of student voice.</p>