Concepciones sobre participación de niñas, niños y adolescentes: Su importancia en la construcción de la convivencia escolar

Abstract

The formation of the citizenship and the transformation of the coexistence in the school and society can only be taken in the way in which we learn how to participate, because the participation is one of the most important components for the construction of a democracy. Nevertheless in the scholar context the situations are limited in which the participation is propitiated. From the above, it realized a study with the objective of analyze the conceptions of the children and teenagers in relation with their participation in the scholar level. A survey was applied to one hundred and ten students from third to sixth grade of elementary school and one hundred twenty seven surveys to first to third grade of junior high school. The results indicate that participants recognize the participation as a right; the conceptions about the participation in the school are dimensioned to activities led by the teachers and limi-ted to an emission of an answer. Showing with this, that the type of participation that is promoted in the school, is from Trilla and Novella (2001), denominated as sim-ple. Therefore, the coexistence could be affected due to the coincidence with Santos (2003), the participation is consi-dered as the base of the coexistence and at the same time an indispensable element for the formation of citizenship.