Sarah Chicken's Outputs (12)

Human rights education: Teachers’ perceptions about the value of children’s participation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presented at BERA 2024 - this presentation focused on our findings from teachers in Work Package 2 of the Children's Participation in Schools project.

Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presented at BERA 2024, this presentation focused on the results of a legislative and policy analysis of Welsh educational documents as well as a survey administered to ITE providers across Wales

Exploring teacher understandings of participatory pedagogies via approaches to children's rights in Wales​ (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation took place at EECERA 2024 in Brighton - the presentation was on initial findings from Work Package 2 of the Children's Participation In Schools Project

Human rights in early education: Teachers’ perceptions on embedding participation into their classrooms (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation took place at ECER at the University of Cyprus and focused on the methodology and findings of WP2 in the Children's Participation in Schools project.

Universities' Council for the Education of Teachers case study (2024)
Report

This article depicting the Children's Participation in Schools project was published as part of UCET's Case Study on good practice in educational research

Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: Unpicking the policy rhetoric (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents the findings from the initial stage of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project which examines the pedagogic practices that embed young children's participative rights in lower primary classrooms in Wales. An... Read More about Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: Unpicking the policy rhetoric.

Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was delivered during a Welsh Government Lunch and Learn seminar session. The presentation focused on the Children's Participation in Schools project generally - including findings from our Work Package 1 as well as providing an over... Read More about Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales.

Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens (2024)
Journal Article

There has been much debate around the ‘voice’ of the child in qualitative research. This paper contributes to these discussions by drawing on the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, which emphasizes dialogical encounters that recognize the value of children... Read More about Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens.

Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales (2024)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the research problem that arises from evidence that, despite supportive policy contexts, enactment of pedagogies that attend to young children’s participation rights in classroom settings is highly variable. We report our explora... Read More about Constructing child participation in early years classrooms: An exploration from Wales.

Researching participative rights in younger children’s education: Policy, practice and children’s experiences (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, researchers at four universities are collaborating over a three-year period to consider how current legislation, policy, and teacher education support the enactment of children’s participative right... Read More about Researching participative rights in younger children’s education: Policy, practice and children’s experiences.

Belonging, community and capability: Listening to the voices of young children to realise process quality in early childhood curriculum enactment in Wales (2023)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the problem of how to achieve process quality in early childhood education (ECE) in a manner that attends to young children’s views. Process quality, the interactional experiences of the child in ECE, is highlighted by the OECD a... Read More about Belonging, community and capability: Listening to the voices of young children to realise process quality in early childhood curriculum enactment in Wales.

Participative rights in Welsh primary schools:​ Unpicking the policy rhetoric (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was delivered at the Queen's University Belfast Symposium on Children's Rights, Participation & Education Symposium. The presentation focused on initial findings from Work Package 1.