ABSTRACT
The ADVOST research project sought to examine how teachers were using voice and agency as pedagogical tools to improve learning in their classrooms. A primary focus for the staff was to create space and facilitate time for the children to have their voices heard, opportunities to exert their agency in their learning, experiencing having an audience and learning that they might have influence on decisions made about classroom activities. In alignment with Cassidy's work, the teachers viewed space and time as complementary, and at times interwoven in their practice and viewed both physical and abstract notions of time and space as ‘opportunities’. The findings emerging from the analysis of the data bring insight into the teachers’ values, principles and practice. Perhaps most importantly, the key finding from the study is that teachers must be deliberate and creative when seeking to provide space and time as key factors in the facilitation of voice.
