The voice of students and school change in the way of inclusive education: learning from the experience of a nursery school and primary

Abstract

In this article we aim to analyse how the research project we have been running on student voices has taken shape in one of school that form part of the sample. We seek in this way to determine how each of the general phases of the research are individualized in the said school with the objective of showing one of the ideas on which the whole project is set, that is, the need for the improvements undertaken by the centres to become their own, and that they represent a product born from the priorities detected in each individual school. The article reveals the elements that are both common to and shared by all the schools springing from the core idea of making pupil participation (the student voice) the chief tool in school change. However, at the same time, this will allow us to appreciate by means of precise examples what specific decisions and adjustments are adopted by the school to which this text refers in the development of its own experience. It further illustrates in this way how it has been possible to maintain a balance between general and particular factors, between what is foreseen and what is in fact carried out, and between what is common and different in our research.