| Abstract [eng] |
The relevance of the research: Modern science provides us more and more data about the fact that each living beings existence depends not only on the inherent factors, but also from the environment: natural, social, cultural. Family and school are the two institutions, which form the common purpose – to foster a positive, willing to learn person. The Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, the Education Act, and the Protection of the Rights of the Child and other laws and legislation guarantee the child’s right to education. Education for children under 16 years old is compulsory; each of them is with their rights to a free education. However, environmental factors which determine students’ reluctance to learn are a sharp problem of our days. New interests appear in teenage years, and they become more stable and stronger. A desire arises to a teenager to know depth of world events, and those areas of life, which is not included in a school program, so their interests do not become coincide with the school.The object of the research is determined factors of students’ reluctance to study.The aim of the research is to substantiate in theory and empirically investigate the factors of students’ reluctance to study, whose disturb realize the right to education.The methodology of the research: the research was performed by questionnaire survey method. Two semi-closed-type questionnaires were prepared for students and schoolteachers. They include: 1) the demographic cluster, 2) a block of questions designed to explore the factors leading to students’ intention/reluctance to learn, 3) unit designed to investigate students’ self-assessment and future perspectives, 4) block of the school attendance of students, 5) unit for the examination of relationships between pupils and teachers, 6) questions about the lending assistance to the pupils’ realizing their right to education.Pupils of the sixth and ninth forms, learning at general education schools participated in the analysis. On the whole 200 pupils (100 from each class) and 70 teachers were investigated.The hypothesis of the research confirmed, because the right of pupils in schools is not fully implemented because of the environmental factors that determine reluctance to learn. |
