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Research Article

Evaluation of an educational mediation programme in primary education: M-Educa (Evaluación de un programa de mediación educativa en Educación Primaria: M-Educa)

Pages 140-165 | Received 12 Feb 2019, Accepted 30 Mar 2020, Published online: 18 Jun 2021
 

ABSTRACT

The concern with conflict in our schools has increased in recent years. For this reason, initiatives aimed at dealing with conflicts like educational mediation have emerged. The goal of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of the M-Educa programme in its student training phase via an evaluative study of the pre- and post-measures of the CUVE3-EP questionnaire on school violence administered to 118 students in the fifth and sixth grades of primary school at a public school in the region of Madrid, and to analyse the records of the mediating students and the interviews of the tutors involved. The main conclusions of this study are that administering the M-Educa programme has had positive effects on coexistence at this school and was especially useful in the perception of the overall reduction in violence in the classes where most mediations took place. Specifically, it had the greatest repercussions on lowering the levels of verbal and physical violence, as well as social exclusion.

RESUMEN

La preocupación por la conflictividad en nuestros centros educativos ha ido en aumento en los últimos años. Por ello, han surgido iniciativas como la mediación educativa encaminadas a tratar los conflictos. Este estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar la utilidad del Programa M-Educa en su fase formativa de estudiantes a través de una investigación evaluativa de las medidas pre y post del cuestionario de violencia escolar CUVE3-EP aplicado a 118 alumnos de quinto y sexto de Educación Primaria de un colegio público de la Comunidad de Madrid, y del análisis de los registros de los alumnos mediadores y las entrevistas de los tutores implicados. Las principales conclusiones de este estudio indican que la aplicación del Programa M-Educa ha producido efectos positivos en la convivencia de este centro escolar, siendo especialmente útil en la percepción de la reducción de la violencia general en las clases donde se han realizado mayor número de mediaciones. Concretamente, ha tenido mayor repercusión en la reducción de los niveles de violencia verbal y física, y en la exclusión social.

Disclosure statement / Conflicto de intereses

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. / Los autores no han referido ningún potencial conflicto de interés en relación con este artículo.

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