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Perry-Hazan, Lotem; Birnhack, Michael – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
This article explores how school principals integrate Closed Circuit TV systems (CCTVs) in educational practices and analyses the pedagogical implications of these practices through the lens of human rights. Drawing on interviews with school principals and municipality officials, we found that schools use CCTVs for three main purposes: (1)…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Privacy, Power Structure, Principals
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Mayes, Eve – English in Australia, 2013
Garth Boomer's ideas in "Negotiating the Curriculum" (1992a) resonate with discussions of shifting teacher and student roles and relationships in the "student voice" movement. Boomer (1988) critiqued his earlier conception of power in "Negotiating the Curriculum," asserting that he would "now like to write a book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hidden Curriculum, Power Structure, Ethnography
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Thornberg, Robert; Elvstrand, Helene – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate children's views and experiences of democracy and pupil participation in relation to everyday school life, and to let their voices be heard on these issues. The data for this paper was derived from two ethnographic research projects conducted in three elementary schools in Sweden. In the classes investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship
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Thornberg, Robert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The aim of this qualitative case study is to investigate how learning in "democratic participation" is constituted by the social interaction and conversation pattern in school democratic meetings in a Swedish primary school. According to the findings, a pupil control discourse and the Initiation-Response-Evaluation pattern dominates the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Democracy, Interaction, Case Studies
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Thornberg, Robert – Children & Society, 2008
Socialisation theories have traditionally focused on how children are socialised in a rather unidirectional manner, according to a transmission model. However, more recent research and theories show that children are not just passive recipients, but active agents in their socialisation process. At the same time, children are subordinated to adult…
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Student Attitudes