Extending Students’ Learning into Relational Sites

Abstract

This chapter analyses the findings from changes I made to my pedagogy and the discussion intervention for a new cohort of year ten students. Drawing on the findings presented in Chapter 4 I drew on activities that facilitated the building and maintaining of relationships in the school and youth centre sites between students, peers and teaching staff. Coinciding with these changes I developed the discussion intervention within those relational contexts. Moreover, following increased anxiety experienced by the original group of students as they started their final year eleven in secondary education and they attempted to raise their attainment levels, I extended this pedagogy into their family relationships. This emerging pedagogy now formed the basis for work I present in the final part of this book.