To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds

© 2020 British Educational Research Association An important goal for educators is to foster student engagement in order to support a sense of valuing and aspiring to higher levels of education. To value education, students need to perceive that they are welcome, express their ideas and engage meani...

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Main Authors: Cunninghame, Ian, Vernon, Lynette, Pitman, Tim
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: WILEY 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81657
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Vernon, Lynette
Pitman, Tim
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Pitman, Tim
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description © 2020 British Educational Research Association An important goal for educators is to foster student engagement in order to support a sense of valuing and aspiring to higher levels of education. To value education, students need to perceive that they are welcome, express their ideas and engage meaningfully in each education space they enter. Therefore, ‘pupil voice’ has the potential to become an important influencing factor regarding the degree to which students become self-regulated learners, value educationand consequently support their aspirations and build their expectations to go on to university. This study examines the role pupil voice plays in building cognitive and emotional engagement, and whether this, in turn, builds desire for further study and expectations for university entry. Pupil voice is operationalised as the extent to which the student feels heard, involved and supported by the school community. Student survey data was collected (N = 542) from a low socioeconomic status region of the southwest corridor of metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. Structural equation modelling substantiated our serial mediation hypothesis. For students, a discernible pupil voice significantly and positively increased cognitive engagement (self-regulated learning), which increased emotional engagement (valuing education) that, in turn, increased university desires, which led to increased university expectations. The results of this study underscore the importance of policies and practical interventions designed to develop strong student–teacher relationships, where students feel they are both seen and heard.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-816572021-07-16T01:01:56Z To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds Cunninghame, Ian Vernon, Lynette Pitman, Tim Social Sciences Education & Educational Research aspirations cognitive engagement emotional engagement pupil voice COVARIANCE STRUCTURE-ANALYSIS SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT ACADEMIC-ACHIEVEMENT VOICE EDUCATION EQUITY MIDDLE DISCOURSES POLITICS © 2020 British Educational Research Association An important goal for educators is to foster student engagement in order to support a sense of valuing and aspiring to higher levels of education. To value education, students need to perceive that they are welcome, express their ideas and engage meaningfully in each education space they enter. Therefore, ‘pupil voice’ has the potential to become an important influencing factor regarding the degree to which students become self-regulated learners, value educationand consequently support their aspirations and build their expectations to go on to university. This study examines the role pupil voice plays in building cognitive and emotional engagement, and whether this, in turn, builds desire for further study and expectations for university entry. Pupil voice is operationalised as the extent to which the student feels heard, involved and supported by the school community. Student survey data was collected (N = 542) from a low socioeconomic status region of the southwest corridor of metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. Structural equation modelling substantiated our serial mediation hypothesis. For students, a discernible pupil voice significantly and positively increased cognitive engagement (self-regulated learning), which increased emotional engagement (valuing education) that, in turn, increased university desires, which led to increased university expectations. The results of this study underscore the importance of policies and practical interventions designed to develop strong student–teacher relationships, where students feel they are both seen and heard. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81657 10.1002/berj.3659 English WILEY fulltext
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Education & Educational Research
aspirations
cognitive engagement
emotional engagement
pupil voice
COVARIANCE STRUCTURE-ANALYSIS
SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT
PSYCHOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT
ACADEMIC-ACHIEVEMENT
VOICE
EDUCATION
EQUITY
MIDDLE
DISCOURSES
POLITICS
Cunninghame, Ian
Vernon, Lynette
Pitman, Tim
To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
title To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
title_full To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
title_fullStr To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
title_full_unstemmed To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
title_short To be seen and heard: Enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
title_sort to be seen and heard: enhancing student engagement to support university aspirations and expectations for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
topic Social Sciences
Education & Educational Research
aspirations
cognitive engagement
emotional engagement
pupil voice
COVARIANCE STRUCTURE-ANALYSIS
SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT
PSYCHOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT
ACADEMIC-ACHIEVEMENT
VOICE
EDUCATION
EQUITY
MIDDLE
DISCOURSES
POLITICS
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81657