How do school principals perceive education that includes death? A phenomenological study

An education that includes death is lacking in schools, even during this period of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. The objective of this study was to attain an exploratory understanding of the school principals’ views on death education. The study, undertaken in Spain, adopted a phenomeno...

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Autores: Rodríguez Herrero, Pablo, Herrán Gascón, Agustín de la, Poveda García-Noblejas, Belén
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/711975
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/711975
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2022.2063749
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:pedagogy of death
education
Educación
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Sumario:An education that includes death is lacking in schools, even during this period of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. The objective of this study was to attain an exploratory understanding of the school principals’ views on death education. The study, undertaken in Spain, adopted a phenomenological design, carrying out interviews with 7 school principals. The main findings were that death was not present, with a clear educational purpose, in their schools’ curricula. Hence the inclusion of death in education requires a change of perspective in death education, based on the knowledge developed by the Pedagogy of Death