The Learner
To understand why students disengage, schools must first understand who their students are.
This collection examines the evidence on adolescent development, motivation, identity and well-being—not as factors students must overcome, but as variables that shape how young people participate in schooling.
Effective responses to disengagement depend on schools recognising and accounting for the individual experiences students bring with them
A systematic review of literature on student voice and agency in middle grade contexts.
- Schaefer, M. B., Pennington, S. E., Divoll, K., & Tang, J. H.
- 2024
This systematic review asks a specific and practically useful question: what does the research literature actually show about how student voice and agency...
The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better. (BOOK)
- Anderson, J. & Winthrop, R.
- 2025
Adolescents are hardwired to learn. So why do so many of them stop? That's the question journalist Jenny Anderson and Brookings Institution education expert...
Subjective well-being is reciprocally associated with academic engagement: A two-wave longitudinal study
- Jesus Alfonso D. Datua,c,⁎, Ronnel B. King
- 2018
This longitudinal study of Filipino high school students makes a compelling case that wellbeing and academic engagement are not simply correlated — they...