La universidad como espacio cívicovaloración estudiantil de las modalidades de participación política universitaria

  1. Jover Olmeda, Gonzalo
  2. López Martín, Esther
  3. Quiroga Uceda, Patricia
Journal:
Revista de educación

ISSN: 0034-8082

Year of publication: 2011

Issue Title: Educación, valores y democracia

Issue: 1

Pages: 69-91

Type: Article

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Abstract

There is a sense that civic values have undergone a certain decline. Today�s higher education systems are therefore put to the challenge of making the university a place for learning citizenship and democratic values and practices. This challenge means students must be encouraged to experience participation in decision-making processes. In this sense our country�s recent adoption of the University Students� Statute is a welcome development, because it institutes student involvement in university policy through the creation of the University Students� Council of the State. To date, however, there is very little research on student participation. This paper aims to ascertain what value students assign to different means of political participation in the university. The answers given by more than 5.000 students were subjected to various analyses. Firstly, factor analysis was done to identify the underlying structure of the different means of participation. Subsequently, the means of participation were analyzed to discover how highly they are valued by students. Lastly, the value scores were studied to ascertain whether certain characteristics of the student subjects may be credited with making any difference. The results show that students value institutional means of participation more highly than alternative means. Especially, the results reveal that students give priority to the individual dimension of the civic experience over the community dimension. These results throw a subtly different light on the common scheme for interpreting political participation by youth in the university and suggest there is a need to strengthen both the community aspect and the critical dimension of the civic experience, a task that would require fostering environments that are open to less-tightly regulated means of exercising citizenship.

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