It is also worth noting that, in the revision or re-designing process of curricula and assessments, voices of learners and their parents, both important stakeholders of the CSE, should be heard in such matters as the clarity of descriptions of learning objectives, the feasibility of achieving the objectives, and resources available to help learners achieve the objectives.
The findings confirm the difficulty of teaching the various facets of voice to learners with low English proficiency, yet some significant gains were also made.
It is curious, too, that the voices of adult learners – who can so powerfully disrupt received assumptions – are almost absent.
These results are enriched by illustrative quotes from interview transcripts and compared and contrasted with previous findings reported in the literature, and thus this study enhances the field by providing the voices of the learners.
Clearly it is important to continue the process of self-reflection, taking in the voices of our learners with more formal, systematic evaluative methods.
Empowering and giving a voice to learners like Masai and Bridget is at the core of the child-friendly school approach because when children are involved in the way their school is managed, they become agents of change themselves.
If he wins, he will be the first NUS president who hasn't been a student in higher education, giving a voice to learners at further education colleges, who until recently, were often on the sideline of student politics.
Neither do we know whether simply the voice of the virtual Learner would have been sufficient to provoke the responses, nor what would have happened if the protests of the Learner had been extremely violent.
Three extended ethnographic examples are given which illustrate a detailed analysis of classroom interaction and the narrative voices of teachers and learners.
