PSYCHOSOCIAL SCHOOL CLIMATE - AN IMPORTANT INDICATOR OF SCHOOL HEALTH STATE
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | SCHOOL AND HEALTH 21(1), VOLS 1 AND 2 |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | school climate; assessment of school climate; research of school climate; negative climate; positive climate; interventions |
| Description | The survey study consists of five parts. In the introduction the author summarises various approaches of investigating the school climate and specifies the used terminology: school environment, school climate, school atmosphere. In the second part he discusses the issues connected with conceiving the school climate as a specific psychosocial phenomenon. Here he mentions subjectivity, group-formation, communicativeness, social constructiveness. The third part in-detail deals with methodological problems in investigating the psychosocial school climate and points out why serious climate research is so difficult. The fourth part deals with negative school climate and with possible interventions that would correct the unfavourable situation. The fifth part concentrates at a positive school climate and interventions following |
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