Students’ voices and diversity project presented at AERA

“Responding to diversity by engaging with students’ voices: a strategy for teacher development” is a three year (2011-2014) grant from the European Union Executive Agency Funding – Lifelong Learning, Comenius Multilateral Projects, (total budget is 231,903 Euros).  The project is a collaborative action research project and involves researchers and practitioners from three countries:    Portugal, Spain and the UK.  The partners are:  Autonoma University of Madrid; University of Algarve in Portugal; and the Universities of Manchester and Hull in the UK, plus two secondary schools in each site – a total of eight schools.   Dr Kiki Messiou is the project coordinator and the PI for the University of Southampton.  The project aims to address one of the biggest challenges facing schools; that of responding to learner diversity.  In doing so, it focuses on students’ views about learning and teaching in schools, and how these can be used by schools as a strategy for teacher development.

Kiki’s poster presenting initial findings from the pilot phase of the project was presented at the AERA conference in San Francisco on Saturday 27^th April 2013.  The poster can be downloaded here:  Using lesson study and students’ voices as strategies for teacher development 

For more information about the project, see:  http://studentsvoices.eu/ or contact Kiki directly: K.Messiou@soton.ac.uk