Politics of Voice in Education

Eve Mayes is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. She currently lives and works on unceded Wadawurrung Country. Her publications and research interests are in the areas of student voice and activism, climate justice education and participatory research. Eve is currently undertaking the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Fellowship (DECRA) project: Striking Voices: Australian school-aged students’ climate justice activism (2022-2025). She has ten years of experience as an English and English as an Additional Language teacher in government secondary schools in Australia.

• Breathing, speaking, writing voices1. Troubling student voice in school reform2. Mis/using voices and theories in research with young people3. Ordering voices and bodies in the history of schooling4. Representing difference in school governance5. Understanding the atmos-fear of the dialogical encounter6. Evaluating the perplexities of school reform 7. Conspiring with the treesBibliographyIndex

The Politics of Voice in Education is a vibrant and vital engagement with what else student voice can do in ethical-political, participatory research. Each chapter critically explores how the affective force-field of voice can come to matter in and beyond formal schooling, from the perplexities of student activisms to new ontologies of attunement in how schools listen to young people.