| Abstract [eng] |
Topic of master’s final paper: Tolerant behaviour of teenagers and it’s education at school. Lithuanian Education Concept (1992) and General Programs and Education Standards of Mainstream Schools (2004) stress that tolerance in the school life is an important premise in preparing the pupils for life in a changing environment, assisting them in finding suitable self-expression and self-realization forms, also inducing their self-expression as well as matured, creative and responsible personality becoming. Tolerance is acknowledged in European and Lithuanian documents as an important value, however it often is underdeveloped at school. On the other hand, there is lack of the studies, disclosing the level of tolerance and its development opportunities in adolescence. Subject of the research. Teenager tolerance development process at school. Aim of the research. To disclose teenager tolerance development peculiarities and development reality at school. Methods of the research. In order to disclose teenager tolerance development peculiarities and development reality at school, quantitative survey was performed. It was performed in two secondary schools of Telsiai and one of Siauliai. In total 214 teenagers from 6th-8th forms and 50 teachers were interviewed. In order to reach aim of the research and to corroborate or reject the hypothesis questioning survey and analysis of written sources were applied. Most of the researchers define tolerance like respect of person’s opinion, behaviour and beliefs. However this concept is also described like the means to obtain other person’s favour and the way to adapt and to realize one’s opportunities to be oneself and to let other be oneselves. The following factors play the most important role in training teenagers’ tolerance: family, school and after-class activities. Training of this value extremely depends on the teacher’s sample, his/her performance, behaviour humanity. Results of the study disclosed that the respondent teenagers are much more tolerant towards parents than towards peers. Such situation can be caused by the fact that the relations between adults and teenagers are based on authority. Analysis of the data showed that in communication with teachers teenagers are a little bit more tolerant than with peers, but less tolerant than with parents. Data also showed that teenagers are a little bit more critical towards behaviour of the pedagogues, than their teachers. Most pedagogues and pupils think that tolerance is most significantly developed through the humanities. Keywords: Teenagers, tolerance, training tolerance. |
