Dr. Paul Downes:

Yes. I would also emphasise there needs to be a consistency with the climate and culture of secondary school. It is very important that those democratic, voice-based principles at primary are carried through into the secondary school system. We risk a disillusionment if we have a very different type of school climate from primary to post-primary. I argue that we need to be looking for that continuity of climate, and that would obviously go back to issues such as conflict resolution skills for secondary teachers as well as primary teachers in initial teacher education.