Roberto Sanz Ponce

¿Crece la conflictividad escolar? Percepciones de estudiantes y profesorado de Secundaria

A large part of society is concerned about school conflict, a subject that has been studied in depth over the last few years. Over a period of time bullying was on the rise. However, new studies that show that school climate is improving have started to appear. The aim of this paper is to verify if really school climate is improving by means of two surveys based on pupils and teachers’ perceptions of school conflict, conducted in 1998/1999 and 2011/2012 by different researchers. The total sample consisted of over 4,000 secondary teachers and students in their third year of secondary school. Results show that, in the participants’ opinion, students are not especially troubled and school climate is positive. The most frequent aggressions are of a verbal nature and troubled students just disrupt the course of the classes. In spite of this, there are 15% of unmotivated teachers because of school conflict. It was also noticed that family situations affect student achievement. The percentage of students who had retaken a year was higher in broken homes and when mothers worked outside home. The results show that conflict has decreased compared to the first study (Garcia & Martinez, 2001).

Un programa de educación en valores. La formación moral en alumnos de educación secundaria obligatoria

The expression “educating in values” may seem redundant at first sight, because we think it’s impossible to educate in a different way. However, it’s not enough that the teachers declare the values, it would be necessary to implement a certain teaching styles that would promote the relations between teachers and students, and between them and the curriculum content. The family enviroment should not be oblivious to this reality. Thus, any serious attempt to develop a program on values should have as a fundamental base an adequate and solid pedagogical formation of teachers, with a good knowledge of specific techniques and strategies for the education in human values. Therefore, there is a need to present in a personalized way – both for groups and individuals – a program of values education for pupils of Compulsory Secondary Education in the city of Valencia, which can respond to the needs of the recipients of the same.