Youth About School: Indications for Practice
Youth About School: Indications for Practice

Summary/Abstract: There are many concepts of school.They are subject to constant transformations, depending on current conditions. In most cases, school theorists are critical about school. They indicate a number of necessary changes and obligations without presenting ideas on how to achieve them. Are we really dealing with the devaluation of this social institution? What do young people think about the school in its present shape? What is school for them? The article presents the results of a survey conducted among first-year university students (N = 903). The research covered first-year university students studying computer science, physical education, medicine at the medical faculty, and pedagogy. Apart from the diagnostic survey based on the register of constitutive features of school, the method used in the study was the analysis of the content of the respondents’ written statements about school. The qualitative study was performed in accordance with the qualitative data coding procedure. To test whether the profile of young peoples’ interests, expressed in the choice of a specific field of study, differentiates their statements about the role and importance of school, the chi-square test of independence (χ2) was used. The respondents most often answered that the school is a meeting place with other students and a place of intellectual development. The frequency of indications of these categories is significantly related to the profile of the subject’s interests. Therefore it may be concluded that direct interactions in the school space and confronting others educate most effectively.

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