Classroom Decision-Making Negotiation and Process Syllabuses in Practice

How can we involve students in classroom decisions? What difficulties might arise? What benefits can we expect? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together accounts from teachers who have introduced shared decision-making with students. context.; 3. Negotiating assessment with secondary school pupils; 4. Introducing negotiation processes: an experiment with creative project work.; 5. "We do what we like": Negotiated classroom work with Hungarian children; 6. Is a negotiated syllabus feasible within a national curriculum?; 7. Refining negotiated classroom work in a Spanish secondary school; 8. Negotiation in tertiary education: clashes with the dominant educational culture; 9. Syllabus negotiation in a school of nursing; 10. Negotiating the syllabus: learning needs analysis through pictures; 11. Reality therapy: using negotiated work in a technical writing class; 12. Negotiation of outcome: evaluation and revision decisions in the Writing Curriculum; 13. Learners negotiating the role boundaries; 14. A Process Syllabus in a methodology course: experiences reflection in teacher education; 16. Negotiation participants' experience in a process syllabus for ELT Professionals; 17. Negotiation as a participatory dialogue; 18. The practicalities of negotiation.

Contents: 1. The significance of negotiation; 2. Negotiated evaluation in an ESL context.; 3. Negotiating assessment with secondary school pupils; 4. Introducing negotiation processes: an experiment with creative project work.; 5. "We do what we like": Negotiated classroom work with Hungarian children; 6. Is a negotiated syllabus feasible within a national curriculum?; 7. Refining negotiated classroom work in a Spanish secondary school; 8. Negotiation in tertiary education: clashes with the dominant educational culture; 9. Syllabus negotiation in a school of nursing; 10. Negotiating the syllabus: learning needs analysis through pictures; 11. Reality therapy: using negotiated work in a technical writing class; 12. Negotiation of outcome: evaluation and revision decisions in the Writing Curriculum; 13. Learners negotiating the role boundaries; 14. A Process Syllabus in a methodology course: experiences reflection in teacher education; 16. Negotiation participants' experience in a process syllabus for ELT Professionals; 17. Negotiation as a participatory dialogue; 18. The practicalities of negotiation.