Pupil participation: the NASEN policy

Author: GEOFF LINDSAY

Source: Support for Learning, Volume 19, Number 4, November 2004 , pp. 194-195(2)

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Abstract:

NASEN is to be congratulated for developing a Policy on Pupil Participation (NASEN, 2004). The importance of developing this practice has been increasingly recognised over recent years by policy makers, practitioners and researchers. In this short article I shall address some of the issues that the development of such a policy raises. Although generally welcoming NASEN's initiatives and similar actions by other organizations, I consider it important also to review the issue more broadly.

Keywords: pupil participation; policy; rights

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0268-2141.2004.00347.x

Affiliations: 1: Geoff Lindsay is Professor of Special Educational Needs and Educational Psychology at the University of Warwick where he is also director of CEDAR (Centre for Educational Appraisal, Development and Research). He is also Convenor of the European Federation of Educational Psychologists Associations Standing Committee on Ethics, and has researched and written on values and ethics in relation to practice, including work with children. He is co-editor with Ann Lewis of Researching Children's Perspectives (2000), published by the Open University Press.

Publication date: 2004-11-01