Togetherness, Coexistence or Confrontation - the Impact of School Climate and Culture on Peer-to-peer Social Relations in Catalonia, Spain 1
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper presents some of the results of the study ‘Coexistence and \nConfrontation among Peers in Secondary Schools in Catalonia’ commissioned by \nthe Ombudsman’s Office of the Catalan government and carried out at the \nInstitute of Childhood and the Urban World (CIIMU) in Barcelona, Spain, in \n2005-2006. It offers a description of the indicators of malaise and exclusion \namong students at nine public and private secondary schools serving varying \nsocial environments in Catalonia. Qualitative and quantitative techniques were \napplied, based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with students, teachers, \nparents associations and school management, and a questionnaire for students in \nYear 1 and Year 4 of secondary school (ages 12 and 16). Though the results \nobtained also reveal a certain amount of verbal, social and physical bullying in \nthese schools, this study’s main interest was the factors consitituting each school’s \nclimate as it affected student peer-to-peer relationships. Such factors included the \ntype of ‘model’ student promoted by the school; the values governing social \npopularity and stigmatisation among the students; the sorts of academic \nexpectations placed on students by the school; the perception of teaching methods \nand practices among students; the social relationship between teachers and \nstudents as perceived by the latter; the different models of governance through \nrules and the level of internal coherence in applying sanctions; the strategies used \nby the school to create groups; and the degree of recognition by the institution of \nthe diversity of students’ origins.
Source: OAR@UM (University of Malta)
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2188308983