Democracy and Participation in Secondary Schools in Spain

Abstract

The growing awareness on the part of schools of the need to improve democracy and student participation, particularly in secondary school, is evidenced by the creation of democratizing educational experiences for everybody. The assumption of the social reality present in a wide diversity of students in schools implies a change in the configuration and the functions of the secondary education stage that, in Spain, began to undergo profound changes regarding structure, function and working conditions starting in 1990, when a new education bill modified the configuration of the education system; the Act on the General Organisation of the Education System (LOGSE, 1/1990, 3rd October) substantially reorganized learning stages, schools and syllabae.