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Julia Flutter

Position/Status

Research Associate

E-mail Address

jaed100@cam.ac.uk

Phone

01223 767525

Qualifications
  • B.A. (Hon) Education and Psychology
  • MPhil (Cantab) Psychological Investigation of Intellectual Development

Profile

In 1994, I joined the research team working on Making Your Way Through Secondary School, led by the late Professor Jean Rudduck (part of the ESRC Research Programme 'Innovation and Change in Education'). This longitudinal study of pupils' perspectives on schooling tracked the school careers of a cohort of pupils in three comprehensive schools in the north of England through the last four years of secondary school. Findings drawn from this study have been followed up in a series of projects exploring different aspects of 'pupil voice': most recently in the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme Network Project 'Consulting Pupils about Teaching and Learning' (co-ordinated by the late Professor Jean Rudduck). For details see: http://www.consultingpupils.co.uk. Other projects included 'Improving Learning - the pupils' agenda' (supported by the Nuffield Foundation); Sustaining pupils' progress in learning at Year 3 (supported by Ofsted); Thinking and Talking about Learning - the Effective Learning Project (with Cambridgeshire Local Authority) and 'Student Voice and the Architecture of Change' (internally-funded).

I am currently Dissemination Co-ordinator for the Cambridge Primary Review, led by Professor Robin Alexander. For information about the Cambridge Primary Review: http://www.primaryreview.org.uk/

Research Interests

  • Pupils' perspectives on teaching and learning (primary and secondary)
  • Creating a learning-focused dialogue
  • The physical learning environment
  • Pupil consultation and pupil participation
  • Changing constructions of children and childhood
  • Students as researchers

Recent Publications

Alexander, R.J. (ed) (forthcoming) Children, their World, their Education: final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review. London: Routledge. (contributing authors: Alexander, R.J., Armstrong, M., Flutter, J., Hargreaves, L., Harrison, D., Harlen, W., Hartley-Brewer, E., Kershner, R., MacBeath, J., Mayall, B., Northen, S., Pugh, G., Richards, C. and Utting, D.)

Alexander, R.J. and Flutter, J. (2009) Towards a new curriculum. Part 1: past and present. Cambridge: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Flutter, J. (2008) Enhancing students' engagement with learning through 'student voice' , OSCA Today. Ontario Student Counsellors' Association.

Flutter, J. (2007) Pupil Voice and Teacher Development, Educational Review special edition on Teacher Development, 18, 3, p.343-354.

Flutter, J. (2007) Developing pupil voice strategies to improve classroom practice, Learning and Teaching Update, 3, p.5-7.

Flutter, J. (2006) Engaging students as partners in learning, Curriculum Briefing, 3, 3, p.3-6

Flutter, J. (2006) Comment améliorer l'enseignement et les apprentissages? Une expérience anglaise. Revue Internationale d'Éducation, Sèvres, 43, 91-104.

Flutter, J. and Rudduck, J. (2004) Pupil Consultation: What's in it for schools? London: Routledge.

Rudduck, J. and Flutter, J. (2003) How To Improve Your School: Giving Pupils a Voice. London and New York: Continuum Press.

Flutter, J. and Doddington, C. (2002) Sustaining Pupils' Progress in Learning at Year 3. Cambridge: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Flutter, J. (2000) Words matter: talking about writing in the primary classroom, Topic, NFER.

Rudduck, J. and Flutter, J. (2000) Pupil participation and pupil perspective: 'carving a new order of experience', Cambridge Journal of Education, 30, 1, 75-89.

Flutter, J., Kershner, R. and Rudduck, J. (1998) Thinking about Learning, Talking about Learning. Cambridge: Cambridgeshire LEA/Homerton College

Kershner, R., Flutter, J. and Rudduck, J. (1998) Teacher research as a basis for school improvement, Improving Schools, 1, 2, 59-62.

Rudduck, J., Wallace, G. and Flutter, J. (1998) Consulting teachers about teaching, learning and schooling, in H. Horne (ed) The School Management Handbook (fifth edition). London: Kogan Page, 95-100.