Who Speaks at School? Who Listens? Relevant Questions from the Reflexive Practice Approach

Abstract

This paper presents some lines of thought that will enable us to discuss the disposition of the teachers who listen to their students. Teacher's listening is an essential ingredient in pedagogical practices of a participatory nature and is based on the reflective practice approach, the contributions of the inclusive orientation in education and pupil voice initiatives. Researching the way teachers listen to students from and through a first-person approach, under participatory and inclusive methodology, as will be examined in this paper, sets out, among others, the dilemma of the breakup with the traditional relationship between the subject (who observes), and the object (the observed). Finally, we conclude that a disposition that is committed to all the voices of the students moves away from the categorization and attends to the opportunities that the school can offer for the reflection and critical transformation of our personal and cultural frames of reference.