Browsing by Author "Johansson, Joona"

Goals. The main goal of this bachelor’s thesis was to examine students’ participation outside of lessons in primary schools. Student participation has been widely researched but the clear definiton of the concept is yet to be formed. In my bachelor’s thesis I am focusing on chil-dren’s and teenagers’ participation - Harry Shier (2001) and Roger Hart (1992) are the most regognized researchers on this matter. Their theories state that when it comes to children’s participation there are requirements that should be met for students’ own safety. Certain re-quirements should also be met in order for good participation to come true. By bringing Shier’s and Hart’s theories together with Johanna Kiili’s (2006) I am trying to discover what student’s participation could be. In my thesis I am also looking at the Basic Education´s Nati-onal Core Curriculum 2014 which creates borders and possibilities for student’s participation. Method. In this bachelor’s thesis I used integrative literature review which allowed me to create a good theoretical base and bring it together it with the versatile material I was using. The material was collected systemically and manually using four different sources of infor-mation and one book. The analysis was made using inductive content analysis. The research results where based on 26 sources. Results and conclusion. Multiple things have an influence on how well primary school stu-dent’s participation can come true. Basic Education’s National Core Curriculum mentions student participation multiple times, which makes it an important matter in schools. Student’s participation outside lessons can be mostly seen by looking at how well students’ ideas are being heard. Also students’ own decisions on where and how students spend their breaks at school are examples of participation.