Psycho education of death in the primary school: ¿reality or utopia?

Abstract

The paper expose the results of investigation the work oriented to characterizing the psycho education of death in the primary school “Osvaldo Socarrás Martínez” in Santa Clara. The sample is composed of the scholars who cross the primary cycle and have suffered significant losses within the last two years, their teachers, parents, and/or tutors. In this work it taken an integrative perspective of investigation, with parallel design, the interpretive moments are privileged. The obtained results show significant differences in the significance of death by the scholars of the first and second cycle of this type of learning. It’s also observed that the teachers and the absence of a psycoeducative focus consciously planned and the no existence of methodological orientations and plans in study programmes. The alternative   didactics and the accompaniment of pain emerges “due to spontaneity”,  when there is lack of resources and the professional preparation needed for them, which indicates the priority to reconceptalize the  pycoeducative vision which they have about death.