Student Agency - A Conversation with Larissa Raymond and Dr. Jayne-Louise Collins

Dr. Jayne-Louise Collins is Co-director and lead designer and
researcher at EdPartnerships International. Her interests include
organisational and system learning through a regenerative and
ecological paradigm of change.


Jayne-Louise’s work is focused on educational research and
building learning capacity in organisations through a partnering
approach. She has had extensive experience in partnering with a
range of education systems and schools across Australia to build
connected leadership capacity, creating the conditions for
regenerative change, and in turn flourishing and hopeful cultures
of learning.


Jayne-Louise also brings a depth of knowledge and understanding
of recent research and practice in the field of learner agency –
for both young people and adults. Her learning designs
privilege internal research processes that activate the
voice of young people and adults and invite collaborate analysis
and collective sense making; an important anchor for ongoing
co-design with partners.


Larissa Raymond is a designer and leader of professional learning
at EdPartnerships International. Prior to joining
EdPartnerships she was Head of Teaching and Learning at Caulfield
Grammar School.


Larissa has a wealth of experience and insight in partnering with
young people and adults in primary and secondary school contexts
and local communities. She recently designed,
researched and published the outcomes of a longitudinal research
project exploring the structural, material, and cultural
challenges encountered by a secondary school when conceptualising
and enacting learner agency: Beyond Student Voice: Navigating
Challenges in a Time of Neoliberalism (co-authored with Anne
Cloonan).


Jayne-Louise, Larissa and their EdPartnerships
colleagues completed a two-year qualitative research project
exploring learner agency in partnership with young people, their
teachers and principals (2019-2021). 


This resulted in the publication of a series of papers and a
conceptual framework which continues to shape learner agency
initiatives in various education sectors: Learner agency as a
living ecology: A way of being in the world and being in the
world with each other.


This is the introduction in a series of short podcast spotlights
on schools around the world who are putting many of these ideas
into practice in which we speak with young people, teachers and
leaders.


Social Links


LinkedIn: @dr-jayne-louise-collins / @larissa-raymond


Twitter: @Jayne_Louise_C / @PartnershipsEd