The UNCRC (United Nations of Conventions on the Rights of the Child), which is an international agreement aims to protect the human rights of every child, contains several articles that are indeed relevant to the primary educational settings. For example, Article 12 explicitly points out that the ‘States Parties’, or in this case, the primary school institution, “shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child”. Relating to the assignment topic, which is an attempt to answer the question: ‘What kind of pupil participation?’, the student teacher has deemed Article 12 as the basis foundation for letting the children to realize one’s own rights
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The discussion revolved around a questionnaire which focused on the nature of the school council in OIS (Oslo International School), aiming to grasp how well it functioned and possible limitations as well as future improvements. Some examples of the questions in the discussion were: How inclusive and representative is your school council? / How effective is your school council? Are all sections of the school community represented? If not, are there mechanisms for ensuring their views are represented? / Do all pupils know who their representative is, and what the council is doing to further the needs of students? After the discussion with the principle was finished, her answers were documented as part of the …show more content…
Hart’s ladder consists of eight categories that steadily ascend to the top signifying that the highest level of children’ involvements in classroom activities. The eight categories are listed as follows: ‘manipulation’, ‘decoration’, ‘tokenism’, ‘assigned but not informed’, ‘consulted and informed’, ‘adult-initiated, shared decisions with children’, ‘child initiated and directed’, and the last is ‘child initiated, shared decisions with adults’. Based on the credible data collected in the daily logs, there is clear evidence that supported the categorization of the level of student participation at level 5, ‘consulted and informed’ in my class. This means that the classroom activities were designed by the adults, in which “youth are consulted and informed about how their input will be used and the outcome of the adult
The discussion revolved around a questionnaire which focused on the nature of the school council in OIS (Oslo International School), aiming to grasp how well it functioned and possible limitations as well as future improvements. Some examples of the questions in the discussion were: How inclusive and representative is your school council? / How effective is your school council? Are all sections of the school community represented? If not, are there mechanisms for ensuring their views are represented? / Do all pupils know who their representative is, and what the council is doing to further the needs of students? After the discussion with the principle was finished, her answers were documented as part of the …show more content…
Hart’s ladder consists of eight categories that steadily ascend to the top signifying that the highest level of children’ involvements in classroom activities. The eight categories are listed as follows: ‘manipulation’, ‘decoration’, ‘tokenism’, ‘assigned but not informed’, ‘consulted and informed’, ‘adult-initiated, shared decisions with children’, ‘child initiated and directed’, and the last is ‘child initiated, shared decisions with adults’. Based on the credible data collected in the daily logs, there is clear evidence that supported the categorization of the level of student participation at level 5, ‘consulted and informed’ in my class. This means that the classroom activities were designed by the adults, in which “youth are consulted and informed about how their input will be used and the outcome of the adult