ERIC Number: EJ1127260
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jul
Pages: 10
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ISSN: EISSN-2254-7339
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Towards School Transformation. Evaluation of a Coexistence Program from the Voice of Students and Teachers
Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, v5 n2 p137-146 Jul 2016
Learning to coexist continues to be one of the challenges faced by the current educational system, especially for those schools located in contexts at risk of social exclusion where the violence rate increases on a daily basis. The main aim sought by the present study consists in assessing the impact of a program developed at an educational center located in a vulnerable neighborhood of the city of Valencia (Spain). It is a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest research with a control group that involved a total of 109 teachers and students. It deserves to be highlighted that this paper forms part of a broader research initiative, for which reason the results obtained in the qualitative part through the implementation of a content analysis are presented. The results show the success of the program applied in accordance with the perceptions of the teachers and students involved, who state that all the program strategies have significantly improved school coexistence.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Disadvantaged Environment, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Change Strategies, Teacher Attitudes, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Interpersonal Relationship, Democratic Values, Conflict Resolution, Questionnaires, Qualitative Research, Positive Behavior Supports, Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain (Valencia)
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