{"title":"The political agenda in the participation of college students in the Spanish State Council of University Students","authors":"José-Luis Parejo Llanos, Enrique Maestu-Fonseca","doi":"10.13042/bordon.2023.97311","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION. During the last decade, the student movement in Spanish universities has evolved from an associative and assembly-participatory based model to a system of student councils as representative bodies with a strong influence on university governance. In addition, the State Council of University Students (CEUNE) was created so student interests could be directly promoted and mediated with the government. As the highest representative student body at the national level, it has enabled its members to pursue a political agenda throughout the last decade. METHOD. The aim of this work is to reconstruct the contexts in which student university policies have developed in order to describe and analyse the evolution of the debates, agreements and disagreements that have emerged within this Council. Through discourse analysis, we triangulate information from CEUNE meeting minutes, student manifestos, media coverage and interviews with key informants. RESULTS. We discuss the role of CEUNE in influencing university policy through classic issues (scholarships and public prices) and its capacity to introduce new issues to the agenda. DISCUSSION. Lastly, we analyse whether different administrations have planned their activities in cooperation with student representatives.","PeriodicalId":45710,"journal":{"name":"Bordon-Revista de Pedagogia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bordon-Revista de Pedagogia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13042/bordon.2023.97311","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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INTRODUCTION. During the last decade, the student movement in Spanish universities has evolved from an associative and assembly-participatory based model to a system of student councils as representative bodies with a strong influence on university governance. In addition, the State Council of University Students (CEUNE) was created so student interests could be directly promoted and mediated with the government. As the highest representative student body at the national level, it has enabled its members to pursue a political agenda throughout the last decade. METHOD. The aim of this work is to reconstruct the contexts in which student university policies have developed in order to describe and analyse the evolution of the debates, agreements and disagreements that have emerged within this Council. Through discourse analysis, we triangulate information from CEUNE meeting minutes, student manifestos, media coverage and interviews with key informants. RESULTS. We discuss the role of CEUNE in influencing university policy through classic issues (scholarships and public prices) and its capacity to introduce new issues to the agenda. DISCUSSION. Lastly, we analyse whether different administrations have planned their activities in cooperation with student representatives.
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Bordon. Journal of Education (ISSN: 0210-5934, e-ISSN: 2340-6577), the publication of the Spanish Pedagogical Society, published continuously since 1949. Originally a monthly publication until 1973, it is now published quarterly. It is a scientific journal in the field of education and gives a humanistic and universal view as an aid for education professionals. The purpose of Bordon is expressed in its presentation article (Issue 1, Year 1, May 1949), highly significant for the cultural moment of the times, and in which it makes this brief statement: “We are attempting to provide a service to education in Spain and even worldwide. As grand as our intention may be, we still believe in simplicity. We are not upset by the risk of failure; if Bordón only becomes of interest in the world of culture and education, we will thank God for helping us hit the mark; if, however, we were to see that we do know how to achieve our goal, we would calmly but perhaps slightly melancholically allow this newborn journal to die. And perhaps in this presence of possible failure may be found the greatest guarantee of continuity, because it will be for us like a permanent call of alert.” Bordón. Revista de Pedagogía is present in all the major indices of scientific quality such as the European Reference Index for the Humanities Proquest, Ebsco… Two external reviewers evaluate all its articles, in accordance with the double-blind peer review system.