Simon Taylor is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at the University of Worcester. He specialises in creativity and cultural education, collaborative research and partnerships. His most recent publication is entitled Creativity in the Early Years: Engaging Children Aged 0–5.Seán Bracken is Doctoral Programme Lead for the College of Education Culture and Society at the University of Worcester and an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University Australia. He is co-founder of the International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education (INCLUDE) and coordinates the Inclusion by Design research group at the University of Worcester (UW).

• Preface by Series EditorForewordChapter 1: Education’s purpose: Conceptions of teaching, conceptions of learning, and learner voice.Chapter 2: Why don’t they teach education at school? Listening to learners’ voices and resisting polarisation to restore education as common ground throughout our lifetimesChapter 3: Finding the voice of children past: how do we do it and what does it tell us?Chapter 4: Beyond the survey metrics: A narrative approach to higher education student voice.Chapter 5: Transitions in Education-the importance of learner voice and identityChapter 6: Advocating for the learner and their diverse needsChapter 7: Examining how academic self-concept and agency shape SEND learner identity across the educational lifespan. Chapter 8: Epistemic injustice and the silencing of student voicesChapter 9: From Voice and systemic action: Addressing Race and Racism in a Teacher Education ProgrammeChapter 10: Learner voice and the placement experience: Engineering a map of prison-education interactionsChapter 11: Global voices: Empowering students for world-class educationChapter 12: Empowering Disabled Learners’ Voices and Agency through Universal Design for Learning.Chapter 13: The role of learner voice in producing powerful and sustainable educational change