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Student Voice As Regimes Of Truth: Troubling Authenticity, Emily Nelson
Student Voice As Regimes Of Truth: Troubling Authenticity, Emily Nelson
Middle Grades Review
Student voice: authentic or contrived? In this essay I argue that authenticity in student voice has been largely conflated with a notion of objective truth. I trouble this view for the ways in which it masks power dynamics in student voice in a quest for truth. Instead I proffer a view of student voice as socially constructed through discourses that act as regimes of truth to open up but also discipline and constrain possibilities for action and identity within student voice initiatives. I ‘plug in’ this ‘student voice as regimes of truth’ concept to think with data from a recent …