TEACHERS´PERSPECTIVE ON TEENAGERS PARTICIPATION AND ETHICS AND CIVIC EDUCATION

Abstract

This article presents advances of a research project that addresses teachers' perspectives on
participatory practice management aimed at adolescents in secondary school. The
developments of Southwell and Vasiliades (2014) are taken as a conceptual reference. The
topic is interesting because it allows us to understand from which place teachers promote
student participation and what meaning they give to it. The study population includes
teachers and directors of a state-run secondary school in San Salvador de Jujuy. We worked
from a qualitative approach and used interviews and documentation analysis as data
collection techniques. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with
teachers and principals. To analyse the empirical material, we considered the legal
framework and regulations promoting participation in the educational system and
citizenship training with and for adolescents included in the curricular designs. These
dimensions allowed us to make a first approximation to the position assumed by teachers in
this regard and to reflect on the possible place of the educational institution in the subject.