ASPRINworld:
Initiatives in Student Participation and
Worldwide Music

and Links to Values Education and Service Learning

A.  Student Action Teams

1. Student Action Teams Manual (2003):

www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/curricman/middleyear/StudentActionTeamsManual2003.pdf

2. Research Publications (Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne):

Holdsworth, Stafford, Stokes and Tyler (2001): Student Action Teams: An Evaluation 1999-2000, Working Paper 21.

On-line at: www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/yrc/documents/working_papers/WP21.pdf

Holdsworth, Cahill and Smith (2003): Student Action Teams Phase 2 – 2001-2002: An Evaluation of Implementation and Impact, Research Report 22.

On-line at: www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/yrc/documents/rr_pdf/RR22.pdf

Print copies available from the Youth Research Centre: 03 8344 9633 (+61 3 8344 9633)

3. Connect:
bi-monthly magazine with many stories about Student Action Teams etc:

Available on subscription from: Connect, 12 Brooke Street, Northcote  3070  Vic AUSTRALIA 

Information at: www.asprinworld.com/

4. Student Action Teams documentation:

Holdsworth, R. (ed) (2006) Student Action Teams: Implementing Productive Practices in Primary and Secondary School Classrooms, Connect publication. Available from Connect (above) for A$33 (or A$27.50 for Connect subscribers) – see web link above.

B.  Values Education and Student Action Teams

www.curriculum.edu.au/values/

Lovat, T and Toomey, R (eds) Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect. David Barlow Publishing, 2007; especially Chapter 3: ‘Student Action Teams, Values Education and Quality Teaching and Learning – Case Study from Manningham Cluster, Victoria’ (Judith Chapman, Sue Cahill and Roger Holdsworth)

C.  Service Learning and Student Action Teams

Holdsworth, R., Lake, M., Stacey, K. and Stafford, J. (2005). Doing Positive Things: “You have to go out and do it”: Outcomes for Participants in Youth Development Programs: A Report of a Three Year Longitudinal Study. Canberra: Australian Government Youth Bureau, Department of Family and Community Services; see: catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3707792 (no longer seems to be on-line, but it may be online at the Youth Research Centre website - www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/yrc/)

Holdsworth, R. (2007) Servants or Shapers: Young People, Volunteering and Community, Working Paper 26. Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne. Available at: www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/yrc/documents/wp_pdf/WP26.pdf

D.  Some International Links

Check articles by Dana Mitra and Adam Fletcher (USA): www.soundout.org  and Michael Fielding, Sara Bragg and Pat Thomson (UK);

also: 

www.pupil-voice.org.uk/  and  www.consultingpupils.co.uk/

NEW: Some Student Action Team Documents

Here are some documents for use by Student Action Teams.

Some have been published in Connect; all have been used in various Student Action Team approaches and can be adapted for your own use.

Research Planner: focused particularly on research about engagement, but can be adapted to any situation

Moving from research to action: a planning tool (originally from Connect 191, October 2011: page 31)

Action Planner: again focused around engagement action, but can be adapted