Concepciones del alumnado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria sobre la convivencia en los centros educativos

Authors

Víctor Manuel Rodríguez MuñozSalto de línea Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Abstract

Compulsory Secondary Education Students' Impressions on Living Together in Educational InstitutionsSalto de línea Salto de línea This study deals with Compulsory Secondary Education students' impressions on living together in schools. The information was collected using a kind of design which mixes together different strategies, both qualitative and quantitative. Then, 304 students from three secondary schools of Madrid took part in this project. The aim of the study was to identify the complexity degree of three types of impressions in different scopes or aspects of school coexistence. The interviews, discussion groups plus a survey carried out by means of a dilemmas ad hoc questionnaire have come to prove that students show a mainly complex and relativist vision of coexistence, although there are certain fields where impressions continue being very simple, specially the ones related to the causes of the different types of conflicts. There are very few cases in which conceptions seem to have a more systemic character, although this theoretical point of view is the one that underlies most of to the intervention proposals for the improvement of coexistence. It was not possible to find any significant difference concerning students' gender or the school year in which thery are enrolled (2nd or 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education), although some of them have been found as regards the type of institution where they are studying. Thus, the most complex impressions were found in a state subsidiezed, urban centre of small size.

Keywords

School coexistence, school climate, conflicts, relationships, bullying, mistreatment among peers, school violence, school mediation.