Secondary language: |
English |
Secondary title: |
The teacher's understanding of learned helplessness in children with special needs in primary school |
Secondary abstract: |
Learned helplessness is very common among students with special needs or students who are less successful in school. Constantly experiencing failure convinces them that they cannot have any influence on being successful with their own activity, and they stop trying. Learned helplessness affects motivation, cognition and child’s emotions. A child, who has developed learned helplessness, cannot overcome it by himself or herself. He or she needs help from an adult.
In the research I have focused on the knowledge about learned helplessness among teachers in primary school. I tried to discover whether they recognize sings of learned helplessness in a student and how they prevent or overcome them. I included teachers who teach children with special needs in their class.
The results show that teachers are mostly familiar with the learned helplessness and recognize its sings. They point out that learned helplessness is mostly shown as poor self-esteem. We have offered the teachers a variety of strategies to overcome learned helplessness and they evaluate them as appropriate. We have noticed that the teachers use only very general strategies to help these students. Having knowledge of more specific strategies and planning activities that are aimed at eliminating learned helplessness the prevention and elimination could be more efficient. |
Secondary keywords: |
backward child;motivation for studies;school failure;otrok s posebnimi potrebami;motivacija za učenje;šolski neuspeh; |
File type: |
application/pdf |
Type (COBISS): |
Undergraduate thesis |
Thesis comment: |
Univ. Ljubljana, Pedagoška fak., Specialna in rehabilitacijska pedagogika |
Pages: |
87 str. |
Type (ePrints): |
thesis |
Title (ePrints): |
The teacher's understanding of learned helplessness in children with special needs in primary school |
Keywords (ePrints): |
naučena nemoč |
Keywords (ePrints, secondary language): |
learned helplessness |
Abstract (ePrints): |
Naučena nemoč je pojav, ki ga pogosto zasledimo med učenci s posebnimi potrebami oziroma učenci, ki so v šoli manj uspešni. Ob nenehnem doživljanju neuspeha se pri učencu pojavi prepričanje, da z lastno dejavnostjo ne more vplivati na uspešnost v šoli in tako v šolsko delo več ne vlaga truda. Naučena nemoč vpliva na motivacijo, kognicijo in otrokovo čustvovanje. Otrok, pri katerem se pojavi naučena nemoč, sam le te ne more odpraviti, zato potrebuje pomoč odrasle osebe.
V raziskavi sem se osredotočila na poznavanje naučene nemoči med razrednimi učitelji. Ugotavljala sem, ali prepoznajo znake pri učencu in kako preprečujejo oziroma kako to odpravljajo. V raziskavo so bili vključeni razredni učitelji, ki v svojem razredu poučujejo otroka s posebnimi potrebami.
Rezultati kažejo, da so učitelji večinoma seznanjeni s pojavom naučena nemoč in prepoznajo njene znake. Izpostavijo, da se naučena nemoč pri učencu s posebnimi potrebami najbolj kaže kot slaba samopodoba. V oceno smo jim ponudili različne strategije, ki jih učitelji ocenjujejo kot ustrezne. Ko pa govorijo o ukrepih, ki jih uporabljajo, opažamo, da si ti večinoma zelo splošni. Ob poznavanju bolj specifičnih strategij in načrtovanju dejavnosti, ki so usmerjene v odpravo naučene nemoči, bi preprečevanje in odprava le-te bila lahko uspešnejša. |
Abstract (ePrints, secondary language): |
Learned helplessness is very common among students with special needs or students who are less successful in school. Constantly experiencing failure convinces them that they cannot have any influence on being successful with their own activity, and they stop trying. Learned helplessness affects motivation, cognition and child’s emotions. A child, who has developed learned helplessness, cannot overcome it by himself or herself. He or she needs help from an adult.
In the research I have focused on the knowledge about learned helplessness among teachers in primary school. I tried to discover whether they recognize sings of learned helplessness in a student and how they prevent or overcome them. I included teachers who teach children with special needs in their class.
The results show that teachers are mostly familiar with the learned helplessness and recognize its sings. They point out that learned helplessness is mostly shown as poor self-esteem. We have offered the teachers a variety of strategies to overcome learned helplessness and they evaluate them as appropriate. We have noticed that the teachers use only very general strategies to help these students. Having knowledge of more specific strategies and planning activities that are aimed at eliminating learned helplessness the prevention and elimination could be more efficient. |
Keywords (ePrints, secondary language): |
learned helplessness |
ID: |
8310022 |