| Abstract [eng] |
Every country encounters problems of pupils being absent from schools or the called “drop outs”. According to Lithuanian Republic Education Law, compulsory and publicly secured education is till 16 years old, based on primary and basic education curriculum. However, not all children, younger than 16 years old, attend schools. School non - attendance is closely conditioned by psychological, pedagogical, and social factors. In relation with the point of view of pupils and teachers, reasons of school non - attendance are analysed in this work. Object of the research – reasons of irregular school attendance of the 5th – 10th form pupils of Tauragė town and region. Hypotheses. It is likely that: • older boys – teenagers do not want to attend school more frequently compared with the younger boys and girls from the elementary school; • pupils do not want to go to school usually because of psychological reasons, and more rarely because of social and pedagogical issues; • teachers are scarcely introduced with the reasons of irregular school attendance of the 5th – 10th form pupils. Aim of the research – to define the reasons, causing the irregular school attendance of the pupils. Tasks of the research – 1. To analyse reasons of school non – attendance and problem – solving possibilities using scientific literature. 2. To explore the main concrete reasons of irregular school attendance at basic schools of Tauragė town and region. 3. To prepare recommendations how to solve effectively problems of irregular school attendance at the surveyed schools. Methods of research: analysis of scientific pedagogical, psychological literature and education documents; questionnaire, intended for the pupils, who are irregularly attending school, and for the teachers (quantitative research); statistical data processing methods (distributive analysis, graphic and correlation analysis). Input of the research – 169 respondents: 131 (5th – 10th form) pupils and 38 their educators. 48 girls / teenagers and 82 boys / teenagers; 96 pupils of town school, 35 – village school. 4 5th form pupils; 9 6th form pupils; 20 7th form pupils; 37 8th form pupils; 33 9th form pupils; 28 10th form pupils. Result of research. 1. The results of the research show that in Tauragė region the surveyed 8th – 10th form pupils mostly attend basic school irregularly, and boys / teenagers are more inclined to be absent from school. 2. Results of the research evidence that, from the pupils point of view, the irregular school attendance of the surveyed is mainly influenced by psychological and pedagogical factors, social – have less effect, while biological ones have trivial effect on this matter. Meanwhile, according to the class educators, social, psychological and pedagogical factors influence the irregular school attendance of 5th – 10th form pupils for the most. While the biological factors have a vague effect on the irregular school attendance. 3. Different assessments of class educators and pupils show that teachers scarcely penetrate into the reasons of the irregular school attendance of the pupils. Especially great number of differences has been encountered while determining social factors of irregular school attendance. Accordingly, we can suppose that the surveyed teachers are particularly poorly introduced with out – of - school lives of children; actually, they have formed just a fragmentary vision of a source of the researched problem. |
