A gestão de tempo dos alunos - percepções dos alunos do ensino básico: estudo de um agrupamento vertical - agrupamento de escolas de Vila do Bispo

Abstract

The constant changes in society, the demands of parents’ professional lives careers, growing up in a world where the media and new technology overlap time for dialogue and time for playing are factors that introduce students new approaches to their personal organization and time management in both curricular and extra-curricular dimensions. The recent alterations in educational politics which announced the new structure in curriculum and school timing, correspond to a change in school schedules and, consequently, to changes in the management of the students’ individual time. The problematic of the present thesis is centred in the relationship between the ways of spending students’ free time and their perception about time management. Another important issue in our investigation was to verify if all the organizational structure of school timing interferes or influences the students’ individual time management. The study took place in a Vertical Group of Schools, falling upon the three levels of Basic Education (1st, 2nd and 3rd levels). It’s a mixed qualitative and quantitative study essay. The field study implied the participation of students from these three levels of Basic Education. The crossing of the collected data allowed to withdraw some conclusions about the matter in study, namely to know the ways students spend their free time, the number of hours spent in each activity and the students’ awareness about their individual time management.