Listening to Students: Providing, Making, Taking, and Giving Time

• In Event: Listening and Not Listening to Students’ Voices

Abstract

This paper draws on an eight-year longitudinal study to document how time matters to students and their parents. It is only by attending to people’s experiences over time that we can begin to make sense of students’ school trajectories and envision school experiences that support students not just at particular points in time but across meaningful educational careers. The paper features students’ voices as they consider the use of time in schools. Specifically, I attend to students’ perspectives on providing, making, taking, and giving time in classrooms. This paper not only presents student perspectives but points to the importance of relationships between student and teachers and the need for organizational policies that recognize the significance of time in schooling.

Author

• Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of Wisconsin - Madison