The sense of belonging at school: signification produced by junior high school students
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2018v3n1p133Keywords:
Human Development, School Education, Education Context Social Interaction.Abstract
Based on the Bioecological Perspective of Human Development (Urie Bronfenbrenner 1917-2005), this descriptive study was carried out to analyze the sense of belonging to school, assigned by Junior High School students (from 6th to 9th grades, from 11 to 15 years old). This qualitative approach study used the following research devices: semi-structured interviews and production of pictorial representations with captions. Its results comprise three categories: 1) The school as a space for sheltering (11 participants) or as aversiveness (8 participants); 2) Relationship with other students: belongingness (14 participants) or exclusion (5 participants); 3) Relationship with teachers: friendly affinity (13 participants) or difficult relationship (6 participants). Considering that the events experienced in school are integrated into the other microsystems of student development, by contextually produced processes, the sense of belonging to school and the meanings developed by it affect her/him far beyond the school context. Therefore, one noticed the school as a microsystem capable of producing a set of meanings which links the sense of belonging to school and to scientific knowledge. Understanding in an integrated way the various elements which compose the school microsystem helps working up the educational practices and policies meant for facing unfavorable situations by means of learning and stimulates positive meanings about school.Downloads
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