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Voices of Pupils: Exploring School Council Composition and Voting Age

This article discusses the importance of considering student voices in school councils and the debate surrounding the voting age. It examines different methods for selecting school council members and explores the impact of changing the voting age on schooling and citizenship education.

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Voices of Pupils: Exploring School Council Composition and Voting Age

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  1. 5. Pupil Voices Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

  2. Why ‘voices’ and not ‘voice’? Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

  3. ‘While clothing, common rooms and sanitary arrangements will all rightly be important to young people, we can be confident that there are bigger and more wide-ranging issues of pupils’ concern within their schools.’ (p) Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

  4. Who should decide on the composition of a school council? • Consider the advantages and disadvantages of: • SMT appointment • SMT approved candidate list • Open candidature • Pupil-only vote • Whole school vote • Election by form group delegate(s) Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

  5. Stephen Covey ‘You can’t talk yourself out of what you’ve behaved yourself into’ (p101) • Albert Einstein ‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.’ (p52) • Peter Wentz ‘If you aren’t just a little bit depressed, you aren’t paying very much attention to what’s going on in the world.’ (p57) • Jade Macdonald ‘In a world as messed up as ours, no one can have a hero or inspirational figure . . . because, at some point that ‘hero’ or ‘inspirational figure will screw you over to help themselves.’ (p114) (all quotations from Lorimer 2008, to which given page numbers refer) Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

  6. ‘the majority of adolescents would sooner wipe their rears with their polling cards than vote responsibly’ (p) • Do you agree? • Should the voting age be changed? • If so: • to what? • why? • what might be the impact on schooling? • what might be the impact on citizenship education? Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

  7. Bibliography Lorimer, D. (ed) (2008) Learning For Life: From Inspiration to Aspiration Dundee: Learning for life Leighton, R. (2011) Teaching Citizenship Education: A Radical Approach London: Continuum O’Connor, S. (2010) ‘Why am I allowed to work and marry but not vote?’ Folkestone and Hythe Kentish Gazette 30 August 2010, p3 Leighton, R. 2011. Teaching Citizenship Education Continuum: London

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