ESHA’s quality cards series HEADstart aims to help school heads with useful professional tips on how to develop and become better leaders of their teams.
This Headstart Ensuring Children’s Agency in School provides suggestions for the following practical questions:
- How can I ensure children´s agency in school?
- How can I support parents to respect their child´s agency?
- How can I ensure all children are able to participate in decision-making regardless of their socio-economical background?
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How to use this Best Practice
The HeadStart addresses the questions of why child agency is important and how school heads can ensure that students are heard in the school and have agency over their education. School heads are invited to reflect on their current practices and use Hart´s (1992) Ladder of Participation as a framework for this. The HeadStart can then be used to as a guide on what to consider when improving Child Agency in their schools.
Learning Outcomes
Leadership LO D: Collaboratively synthesise knowledge, tools and frameworks to create and deliver school environments that support the development of Sustainability Citizenship in their communities.
Leadership LO F: Through communities of practice, build capacity as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.