RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 “You have to be mentally prepared for that moment”: Attitudes of the adolescent population to death and their educational implications
A1 Callejo González, José Javier
A1 Marquina Márquez, Alfonso
A1 Jiménez Aboitiz, Ricardo
K1 Sociología de la educación
K1 Attitudes towards death, death education, adolescents, mixed methods
K1 6306.05 Sociología de la Educación
AB This article deals with the opinions and attitudes of the adolescent population toward death and its possible treatment in formal education at a public secondary school in Spain. To do so, we use a mixed methodology - DEA-S scale (n = 366) and three focus groups (n = 23), using descriptive statistical analysis, cluster analysis and qualitative thematic analysis. As in other studies, these students show moderately positive attitudes toward the inclusion of death education at their school, but their position is not unanimous, and above all, they admit its inclusion with certain reservations and conditions that reveal a limited conception of the educational potential of death education: they do not consider it appropriate at all educational stages and are critical of the way in which similar topics are usually dealt with at school. The analysis provides important didactic guidelines for the promotion of death awareness in secondary education.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0748-1187
YR 2024
FD 2024-07-11
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73698
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73698
LA spa
NO Death Studies, 2024,
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 15-ene-2025