The Media Vision about School Coexistence in Spain Revisited

Session Information

23 SES 06 C, Education Policy Formation and Contestation

Paper Session

Time:
2010-08-26
10:30-12:00
Room:
M.B. SALI 7, Päärakennus / Main Building
Chair:
Romuald Normand

Contribution

The problem of school coexistence and the educational policy to improve it, is an international and european concern. Many different countries in the UE, has been certificated that in the last decade with some school violence episodes, published in the mass media.
In 2001, in the frame of a more wide research about school coexistence in Andalusia -Spain- (Gijón, 2007), we include a quantitative and qualitative  analisis of journals, to establish the media vision about school coexistence. From that time to now, the Andalusian Government designed a Peace Culture Plan, with the participation more than 70.000 teachers. Now, we are developing a new study in the same frame to compare data nine years after, and we are preparinf a future research will compare data with a previous research in USA (Fischman et al., 2008).

Method

We selected news related with school coexistence in Andalusia -including the cities of Ceuta & Melilla, North Africa-, using more than 40 newspapers and more than 1.5000 news appeared in 2006/2007. We create a grid for quantitative analysis (14 variables: educational level, type of news, qualification of school coexistence -including parents, pupils or teachers-, etc.). In addition, we create a narrative reconstruction of violence stories, using the qualitative analysis software "Hyperresearch (R)".

Expected Outcomes

The conclusions of our research are very similar to the previous research. Journals and journalists focused in episodic school violence, creating a social discussion about the educatioal policies about the coexistence. There weren't hardly ever news about classroom discipline management, the true concern of the majority of teachers. Finally, the results of Coexistence Plan of the educational authorities in Andalusia aren't reflected in media vision about school violence, bulling, etc.

References

-Fischman, G. E. & Haas, E. (2008) Framing Education: understanding prototypes and the mediatization of higher education in influential newspapers, submitted to American Educational Research Journal February 17, 200 -Gijón, J. (2006). Apropiación cultural de un cambio educativo [Recurso electrónico]. Granada: Universidad de Granada [http://0-hera.ugr.es.adrastea.ugr.es/tesisugr/14096924.pdf]. -McAdams. Katherine C. and. Henry Tamara M. (2006) An Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage. Of Early Childhood Education http://hechinger.tc.columbia.edu/assets/hechinger/pdfs/MerrillCollege-EARLYCHILD-REPORT.pdf. -Maeroff, G. (Ed.) (1998) Imaging education: The media and schools in America (pp. 26-45). New York: Teachers College Press. -Schrøder, Kim & Louise Phillips (1999) “Mediatised Politics: Political Discourses and the Media in Contemporary Danish Democracy” The Nordicom Review, vol. 20, no. 2: 59 -70.

Author Information

University of Granada
Didáctica y Organización Escolar
Granada
University of Granada, Spain
University of Granada, Spain

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