School Improvement : What Can Pupils Tell Us? (Hardcover)

Introduction? 1. Pupil voices and school improvement ?Part 2: Finding your way? 2. Going to ‘the big school’: the turbulence of transition ?3. Relating to teachers ?4. Lessons, subjects and the curriculum: issues of ‘understanding’ and ‘coherence’? Part 2: Making a commitment to learning ?5. Engaging with learning ?6. The meaning of ‘working hard’ in school ?7. Homework: dilemmas and difficulties ?8. Making a strategic withdrawal: disengagement and self-worth protection in male pupils? Part 3: Experiencing the pressures of learning ?9. Pupils under pressure: coping with stress at school? 10. Getting serious: the demands of coursework, revision and examinations? Part 4: Facing the future? 11. Confronting the world of work ?12. The reckoning? Conclusion? 13. Reviewing the conditions of learning in schools