Students can be compared to birds whose existence requires them to open their wings in the skies and pick up seeds from the ground and risk a fishing trip so that they can learn about the laws of existence and the secrets of living. Sometimes the background and time provide a platform that threaten the sky, the cage, and the ground of the students. So that they can no longer remember the flight and become acquainted with the ritual of life. In the current education system, the existence of some educational structures and rules can lead schools to cages and classrooms to captivity. The aim of the present study was to enter the students' world and explore and represent the meaning of school through their perspective. To achieve this goal, narrative research method with thematic analysis method was used to analyze students' narratives. The results showed that if the students in the school had five themes: "authoritarian teaching style", "imposed educational structure and regulations", "dead curriculum content", "lack of educational facilities and inappropriate educational equipment" and "unprofessional behavior of the school's executive staff", then the school will become as a prison. The findings also show that the school, as an experience of liberation, is a place where students can learn four topics: "emancipatory teaching style", "live teaching program", "physical facilities and equipment", "appropriate and sympathetic manner of the executive staff of the schools". These results suggest that the context of primary schools, namely educational rules, the teaching process, physical and educational facilities, and curricula, requires a fundamental revision based on the requirements, and living conditions of students.
Ghorbani, D. H., Behniya, A., & Khezerioo, D. G. R. (2020). Emancipatory or captivity: Students reconstruction of schools meaning. Quarterly Journal of Education Studies, 6(21), 96-117.
MLA
Dr. Hossein Ghorbani; Ali Behniya; Dr. Gholam Reza Khezerioo. "Emancipatory or captivity: Students reconstruction of schools meaning", Quarterly Journal of Education Studies, 6, 21, 2020, 96-117.
HARVARD
Ghorbani, D. H., Behniya, A., Khezerioo, D. G. R. (2020). 'Emancipatory or captivity: Students reconstruction of schools meaning', Quarterly Journal of Education Studies, 6(21), pp. 96-117.
VANCOUVER
Ghorbani, D. H., Behniya, A., Khezerioo, D. G. R. Emancipatory or captivity: Students reconstruction of schools meaning. Quarterly Journal of Education Studies, 2020; 6(21): 96-117.
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