Cultura Escolar: Preferencias de los jóvenes entre 4to y 9no grado y sus interacciones con los miembros de la comunidad educativa en instituciones privadas

Abstract

The school culture gathers different aspects in the cognitive, affective, ethic, esthetic
social and behavior levels, from the unitary base as much as the plural base (Martínez-
Otero, 2003). This aspects constitute an action and interaction structure that provide
identity to all the members of each educative center
. Even though, no matter if it is about
different educative centers, because they use to be culturally alike.
The objective of this investigation is to characterize the scholar culture of nine privet
schools from mid and high economical stratum from Cali, identifying the preferences of
the students between 4
th
and 9
th
grade (9 to 15 years old) as much as the interactions
they make among them and with the other staf
f from the educative community
. S
tudents
participate in focus groups with half- structured questions. In a parallel way
, the teachers
and the parents of these students answer inquests that allow confronting the measure in
which the adults approach to the thoughts of the youngsters, determining the affectivity
of these interactions.
With this investigation we are tracking the permanent changes in the scholar culture,
opening the path of new ways of behaving and building innovated, contextualized and
systematic pedagogic strategies where every single person needs acceptation, recognition
and pertinence in order to feel security and show off his/her academic, personal and
social capacities.