The purpose of this case study is to see how all the involved parties; students, custodians and teachers look upon ”A meeting of learning – personal development dialogue that is led by children and young people”, on a school south of Stockholm. Our questions at issue were to see what the students had learned from their personal development dialogue, if the custodians had received all the information they expected to get from a personal development dialogue, and last but not least if all the involved parties; students, custodians and teachers, wanted to continue with this model? We used interviews and paper questionnaires to collect answers to our case study and the questions at issue. In both the interviews and paper questionnaires we could see that an overwhelming majority had a positive opinion about students leading and “owning” their personal development dialogue, especially the students themselves. In their own comments they express that this experience has been fun, instructive, exciting and that they have developed their skills in; taking their own responsibility, planning, becoming aware of their knowledge and proficiency and what they need to improve, and making presentations about themselves.

A few custodians expressed that they hadn’t got all the information they expected from a personal development dialogue, things like more contact and more feedback from the teacher.

Over all 87% wanted to continue with this type of personal development dialogue that is led by children and young people.