ABSTRACT Since the ratification of the 1981 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) the role of Voice of the Child (VoC) in education has gained significance. Despite various VoC models and methods existing to collect and understand it, it is often critiqued for being tokenistic, rather than meaningful. Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is a relevant psychological theory which provides a range of methods for exploring VoC. Previous PCP research has utilised art methods to explore primary school pupil’s views about various aspects of their educational experience. The current research sought to extend the application of PCP to explore VoC by employing the repertory grid interview method to represent and understand a sample of Year Five pupils’ opinions and perspectives on their social relationships. The repertory grid interview method was proposed as a method that would lead to meaningful rather than tokenistic VoC. The findings demonstrated that participants had a strong sense of self in relation to others and reported positive social relationships. Relationships with family members were found to be the most reported and hypothesised to be the most important relationships in participant’s social worlds. Participants predominantly utilised the construct categories of ‘extroverted/introverted’, ‘pleasant/unpleasant’ and ‘sympathetic/unsympathetic’ with regards to their social relationships and interactions. These findings are discussed in relation to the argument that repertory grid interviews offer a meaningful rather than tokenistic method for engaging in VoC. Limitations and implications for future research and professional practice are also discussed.

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利用个人建构心理学和剧目网格访谈法，有意义地代表孩子在社会关系中的声音

摘要 自 1981 年联合国儿童权利公约（1989 年）获得批准以来，儿童之声（VoC）在教育中的作用变得越来越重要。尽管存在各种 VoC 模型和方法来收集和理解它，但它经常被批评为象征性的，而不是有意义的。个人建构心理学 (PCP) 是一种相关的心理学理论，它提供了一系列探索 VoC 的方法。以前的 PCP 研究利用艺术方法来探索小学生对其教育经历的各个方面的看法。目前的研究试图通过使用剧目网格访谈法来代表和理解五年级学生对其社会关系的意见和观点样本，从而将 PCP 的应用扩展到探索 VoC。剧目网格面试方法被提议作为一种可以产生有意义的而不是象征性的 VoC 的方法。调查结果表明，参与者对他人有强烈的自我意识，并报告了积极的社会关系。与家庭成员的关系被发现是报告最多的，并且被认为是参与者社交世界中最重要的关系。参与者主要利用“外向/内向”、“愉快/不愉快”和“同情/不同情”的结构类别来处理他们的社会关系和互动。这些发现与以下论点有关，即剧目网格访谈为参与 VoC 提供了一种有意义的而非象征性的方法。