Sharing School Staffs Ambivalent Perceptions and Feelings towards Children from Divorced Families

Abstract

In the last years, the divorce rates have risen in the world, as well as in Israel. Changes in family structure significantly affect children life cycles and they have to deal with their parents divorce in different ways. Since children spend many hours in school and school is part of the childs life cycle, school becomes the childs second home. The subject of divorce raises many concerns among school staffs; therefore, it is important to discuss how school staff relates to divorce in general and to children of divorced families in particular. A doctoral thesis sought to examine how to improve perceptions of school staffs regarding dealing with children of divorced families. The following article presents a part of the qualitative findings of a doctoral thesis that discusses improving perceptions of school staff with regard to dealing with children of divorced families from a pedagogical perspective. It addresses school staffs feelings and perceptions towards children of divorced families.