School Administrators' Perceptions of Democratic Coexistence in Catalan Schools: An Analytical Study

Autor/inn/en	García-Raga, Laura; Sala-Bars, Ingrid; de Nicolás, Montserrat Alguacil; Torremorell, Maria-Carme Boqué
Titel	School Administrators' Perceptions of Democratic Coexistence in Catalan Schools: An Analytical Study
Quelle	In: South African Journal of Education, 42 (2022) 2, Artikel 2055 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (García-Raga, Laura) ORCID (Sala-Bars, Ingrid) ORCID (de Nicolás, Montserrat Alguacil) ORCID (Torremorell, Maria-Carme Boqué)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-0100
Schlagwörter	Administrators; Administrator Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Democratic Values; Democracy; Student Participation; Educational Strategies; Educational Innovation; Governance; Elementary Secondary Education; Public Schools; Private Schools; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Demokratie; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Lehrstrategie; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Spanien
Abstract	In democratic societies, education should help build a participative, critical and responsible citizenry and therefore promote the role of schools as settings where students learn democratic coexistence. With the study reported on here we aimed to analyse how coexistence is fostered in classrooms and schools, as well as the possible synergy between schools' efforts to educate in democratic coexistence, and the children's social participation in their setting. To do so, we focused on the perspective of 476 school administrators at schools in Catalonia (Spain) based on an ad-hoc questionnaire comprised of 22 items on a Likert scale. The results reflect settings that value democratic coexistence at school and in society, although when we delved a bit deeper, we found aspects that still required more work. Actions that should be the focal point in the immediate future include developing more innovative educational strategies, training the administrators and enlisting students' participation in running the schools. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Education Association of South Africa. University of Pretoria, Centre for the Study of Resilience, Level 3, Groenkloof Student Centre, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, George Storrar Road and Lleyds Street, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. Web site: http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/index
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01