High-school student councils: A typological approach

Ester Halfon, Shlomo Romi

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    Abstract

    The objective of this study was to identify the various types of student councils based on their areas of interest. The study population included 100 school principals or deputy principals, in junior high schools or high schools, who filled in questionnaires to map student councils. The analysis yielded 89 student-council profiles, with two variables—community volunteering and student rights—forming the basis for the other variables, and thus for the four types derived: integrative, voluntary, rights, and dim. The ‘Discussion’ section describes an attempt to understand the uniqueness of these two variables and their interrelations.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)114-134
    Number of pages21
    JournalEducation, Citizenship and Social Justice
    Volume16
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jul 2021

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    Halfon Ester Shaanan College of Education, Israel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4522-0635 Romi Shlomo Bar-Ilan University, Israel Shlomo Romi, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel. Email: [email protected] 12 2019 1746197919886880 © The Author(s) 2019 2019 SAGE Publications The objective of this study was to identify the various types of student councils based on their areas of interest. The study population included 100 school principals or deputy principals, in junior high schools or high schools, who filled in questionnaires to map student councils. The analysis yielded 89 student-council profiles, with two variables—community volunteering and student rights—forming the basis for the other variables, and thus for the four types derived: integrative, voluntary, rights, and dim. The ‘Discussion’ section describes an attempt to understand the uniqueness of these two variables and their interrelations. nonformal education student councils students’ rights typology young volunteers edited-state corrected-proof typesetter ts1 The authors wish to thank the Institute for Community Education and Research and the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University, and the Shaanan College of Education, for supporting this research. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the School of Education at Bar Ilan University. The authors also wish to thank Reuven Amar for his assistance with the methodology. The authors dedicate the article to the memory of late Prof. Erik H. Cohen. Declaration of conflicting interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Ethical approval All procedures performed in the current study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Funding The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Informed consent Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. ORCID iD Shlomo Romi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4522-0635 The authors wish to thank the Institute for Community Education and Research and the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University, and the Shaanan College of Education, for supporting this research. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the School of Education at Bar Ilan University. The authors also wish to thank Reuven Amar for his assistance with the methodology. The authors dedicate the article to the memory of late Prof. Erik H. Cohen. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

    FundersFunder number
    Institute for Community Education and Research
    School of Education at Bar Ilan University
    School of Education at Bar-Ilan University
    Shaanan College of Education

      Keywords

      • nonformal education
      • student councils
      • students’ rights
      • typology
      • young volunteers

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