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BEYOND STUDENT VOICETO DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITYMichael Fielding
An exploratory paper 
focussing on
Radical inclusion
- involving those whose voices are seldom heard
Reversing roles
- students as agents of adult professional learning
Co-constructing the common good
- remaking public spaces in schoolswhere adults + young people can have an open dialogue
 presented at the day conference
New Developments in Student Voice:Shaping schools for the future
Thursday 12 June 2008 
Birkbeck College, University of London11.00 - 15.00 
Supported by a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
We warmly invite and welcome your response
Professor Michael FieldingEducational Foundations & Policy StudiesInstitute of Education, University of London,20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0ALEmailm.fielding@ioe.ac.ukTel: 0207.612.6919Mob: 07952.267.050Website : www.ioe.ac.uk/crse 
 
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 Acknowledgements
My thanks to the
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
for financial assistancesupporting this work.My thanks to
Gill Mullis
, Student Voice Co-ordinator at the Specialist Schools& Academies Trust, for her support and for putting me in touch with some of the outstanding examples of innovative work mentioned in this paper.My thanks, too to the
teachers
and
headteachers
and
Local Authority colleagues
who responded so swiftly and so helpfully to my phone calls andemails, in particular, Ceddy de la Croix (Sandringham School), Leora Cruddas(London Borough of Waltham Forest), Elizabeth Draper (formerly of HaywardsHeath Sixth Form College), Alison Peacock (the Wroxham School), andCassie Shorey (Harding House).My further thanks to
Graham Hanscombe
,
Principal Advisor, Best Practice &Research, Essex Standards & Improvement Service
 
and
 
to
 
Dr JaneMcGregor 
 
for many hours of dialogue over a number of years from which thispaper and this project emerged.Lastly, my thanks to
Fiona Carnie
, Visiting Research Fellow at the LondonInstitute, who works with me on the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation project: her patience and encouragement are beyond measure.
 
Introduction
This conference paper addresses three issues which provide new andexciting challenges for all those working in ways which further develop ademocratic way of life in the field that has come to be known as StudentVoice. These issues concern
1 Radical inclusion
- involving those whose voices are seldom heard 
2 Reversing roles
-
students as agents of adult professional learning 
3 Co-constructing the common good
-
remaking public spaces in schoolswhere adults + young people can have an open dialogue
The intention of the paper and of the 12
th
June conference is to explore thesematters together and to invite further exchanges of view.The next phase of our work will involve volunteer schools working with our colleague, Perpetua Kirby, in follow-up conversations, visits and the write upof case studies during the Winter Term 2008 and Spring Term 2009.These conversations and case studies will then form the basis of a practicalresource which we hope will be helpful for schools wishing to develop work inthese three domains.
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