ERIC Number: EJ1173435
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Aug
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0726-2655
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Student Perceptions of the "Just World" of the School: Impact on School Achievement, Future Civic Behaviour, and Future Occupation
Saha, Lawrence J.
Education and Society, v35 n2 p23-40 Aug 2017
Dispositions and motivations toward future adult life are crystalized during adolescence, and one of the key agents in this process is student-teacher relationships in the school. Adolescent students can be very sensitive to the differential treatments of teachers toward them and their fellow students, particularly with respect to fairness and justice. In many respects, their perceptions of the way adult society works is influenced by the way their school and classroom work. Using the data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth (LSAY), this paper analyses the school and classroom justice perceptions of the 1998 Year 9 cohort of a representative national sample of students (N = 9289) and the extent to which these perceptions uniquely affect future civic behavioural dispositions, which we call prosocial behaviour, and future entry into the job market by 2008. The justice scale includes seven items relating to fairness in grade allocation, attention giving, listening, and feelings of comfort and security. The importance and implications of perceptions of fairness and justice in school contexts is discussed with respect to future individual level attainments and behaviours, and their impact on future civil society.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Cohort Analysis, Prosocial Behavior, Academic Achievement, Employment Potential, Labor Market, Predictor Variables, Social Justice, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth
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