FAILURE OF STUDENTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PEDAGOGUES
Original scientific paper
Abstract
The general goal of our research is to describe and understand the school failure of students in primary schools from the point of view of pedagogues. In order to realize the general goal, we started from the basic research question, which reads: What are the activities of pedagogues in the field of work related to school failure of students. For this purpose, we applied qualitative research, focus group technique. Participants in the focus group are pedagogues from primary schools. Using a qualitative coding method, we created a code tree with the corresponding areas, categories and dimensions. In the final version of the code tree, 1 area, 3 categories with corresponding dimensions, was formed. The separate categories are: causes of school failure, prevention of school failure and ways to solve students’ school failure. The obtained results showed that the biggest causes of students ‘school failure are unadapted teaching contents, family problems, students’ lack of interest and the influence of their peer group. In the field of prevention and solving the problem of school failure, pedagogues generally apply the same forms of counseling with students and teachers, through classes of the class community introduce students to various techniques of successful learning, encourage their self-confidence and cooperate with teachers.
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