School Disengagement-organizative culture: mutual implications in the Aulas Ocupacionales

Abstract

This article presents and analyzes some data derived from a doctoral thesis about Aulas Ocupacionales (AO) in the Region of Murcia (Spain), which represent a measure aimed at students with a history of truancy and bad behavior in the Secondary Basic Education stage. In particular, those that show that in the disengagement processes of this student influences the own school experience offered and reflected in the organizational culture of the schools and their classrooms. Basic assumptions, beliefs and values kept by the teachers and other professionals of the AO reveal the continued existence of the logic of the deficit, reflected in the daily operation “organizational and pedagogical”. This constitutes a substantial barrier to turn the AO into an environment rich in educational attention for students disengaged in their learnings, lower their disaffection and distance from the academic environment and push them to persist and involve themselves in their training.