Abstract
Establishing a comparison between self-regulation skills that pupils develop in Primary Democratic, Active Learning and a Traditional school, a big difference in the communication styles were displayed by the teachers. Going along with this, very different social interactions were observed between the pupils. It has been stablished a relationship between the communication styles teachers have chosen and the effect it has in children’s behaviour and the relationships they create between each other. However, teachers are not completely free to choose the way they want to communicate, it is also decided by the type of school they are working in. Each schooling type have their own principles, teaching method and philosophy. They even have a different understanding about the meaning of education. This is also decided by the current educational policy in each country. This is why two different laws of education (Spanish and Scottish) have been analysed. This study is a qualitative and no experimental or Ex Post Facto research, in which the variables are going to be studied in their natural context undertaking no control over them. A reflexion is also been made on why alternative education is not legal in Spain comparing Spanish educational system with the Scottish one. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n3s1p36
Highlights
This paper is aimed to present a very important part of the teaching education that, at least in the Spanish teaching training is not been taking care of properly: teachers style of communication and its influence the relationships children establish with each other.The present paper presents how style of communication chosen by teachers has an influence in children’s behaviour and in the way they face different kinds of social interaction.Here is presented the unexpected findings of a PhD research which was originally focused on understand how different schooling types develop self-regulate learning skills in Primary School pupils.To understand this research a quick overview of the different schools participants is going to be made
In the active learning school the teaching method used is project-base, children’s learning pace is respected but the teacher still holds a democratic control of the classroom
To make this comparison it was needed to create a classification of the styles of communication and classroom environment
Summary
This paper is aimed to present a very important part of the teaching education that, at least in the Spanish teaching training is not been taking care of properly: teachers style of communication and its influence the relationships children establish with each other. All the desks are facing the blackboard where the teacher will perform the different lessons. In this school teachers are in total control of the classroom becoming the authority. Their teaching method is child-centred and research-base, pupils can decide what to learn and when. This means, the learning process is completely centred and adapted to each child learning pace. In the active learning school the teaching method used is project-base, children’s learning pace is respected but the teacher still holds a democratic control of the classroom
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