Slovenská spoločnosť pre výskum mládeže

• Pridané:September 22, 2007
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• Kategória:UP2YOUTH Slovensko

Ladislav Machacek
Prof. director Centre for European and Regional Youth Studies FF UCM in Trnava
FF UCM in Trnava, Slovakia
CERYS FF UCM in Trnava,
Herdovo nam. 2, PC 91701 Trnava, Slovakia

E-mail: machacek@syrs.org

A representative sociological survey of secondary school and university students that was conducted in October 2005 on a surveyed sample of secondary school (870 respondents) and university students (829 respondents) provided us with some very interesting information regarding their participation in the self-administered life of their schools. Student participation is becoming more typical in terms of its nature – the majority of students know about the existence of a student council at their school (75-80%); significantly less of them participates in its sessions, and an even smaller number of students take part in elections (30%); and the smallest number of students apply for candidacy (11%) and actually work in the self-administration bodies of the school. In fact, this is the essence of a functioning representative democracy. The typology of the students has confirmed the existence of a group of students involved in the development of the youths´ group life. These students represent a kind of “core of organizers”, representing about 8-9% of the overall cohort. Twenty-eight percent of the students within this group were candidates in the elections to the Student School Councils (SSC). In regards to the expectations relating to the activity of SSC, the students mentioned the following: the area o services at school and extracurricular interest activities, but also the need to develop the students´ technical and scientific activity and the task to equip the school with modern didactical technology.

Smolenice 2007 abstracts