Los sistemas de apoyo entre iguales (SAI) y su contribución a la convivencia escolar

Abstract

Convivencia is now considered a preferred area of preventive work in educational contexts to achieve emotional balance and social well-being of students. It is also an intervention factor for the education in values and the improvement of the integral performance of the students in the long term. One of the most appropriate tools used in Convivencia is to provide students with presence and voice, through various structures of participation and management. In the schools there are several Support Systems (SAI): Partnering, Help Teams, Mediation, Tutoring or Mentoring. In an intentional and differentiated way, each one of them gives prominence to the students in the management of their own coexistence. In this paper, we analyze the different modalities of peer support, their characteristics, and the different ways they are developed today in schools and high schools, highlighting their potentialities that each one of them has. On the other hand, they indicate the skills that the students develop with their participation and the training needs and precise implementation conditions to obtain from them in schools a manifest effectiveness and an appropriate fit in other structures of the educational context.