ESTUDIS I RECERQUES / STUDIES & RESEARCHES
Esther Fatsini-Matheu és professora agregada associada al Departament de Pedagogia de la Universitat de Vic-UCC. Investigadora del GREUV. Pedagoga Social (UAB) i Mestra (EUB-UVic). Doctoranda al programa de Doctorat en Innovació i intervenció educativa de la UVic-UCC. Actualment treballa en projectes sobre la renovació pedagògica a Espanya i sobre mentoria i identitat docent. ORCID: 0000-0002-0090-8487. Adreça electrònica: esther.fatsini@uvic.cat

The purpose of this contribution is to show some results of the thesis «Participation and learning of citizenship in the democratic school» on how students recognize that they have experienced the right to participation in school. Qualitative research was carried out based on an interpretive humanistic perspective, using a multiple case study design. One of the instruments used for the investigation comprised shorts text written as small life stories produced ad hoc at school. The group of participants were schoolchildren between 11 and 12 years old from two public schools (n=71). The article shows the results of a content analysis of these life stories using the Atlas.ti program, developed from a theoretical model built in the context of this research. The model identifies different dimensions of democracy in the conceptualization of participation. It has been verified that the stories covered all the dimensions of democracy raised in the theoretical model, although there were particularities in the perspective of childhood on the participatory processes experienced in each centre that were related to the uniqueness of each pedagogical project.