The school anxiety and the educational ways of overcoming it Cover Image

Mokyklos baimės raiška ir jos įveikimo edukaciniai veiksniai
The school anxiety and the educational ways of overcoming it

Author(s): Algimantas Bagdonas
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: school anxiety; test anxiety; achievement anxiety; evaluative anxiety; social anxiety; educational factors; learning environment.

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the research - to analyze factors, raising problems of school fear’s expression and educational challenges to schools, schoolchildren, teachers and families, in the context of Lithuanian educational system. The goals of the research: to survey various scientific schools’ standpoints of school fear; to analyze what educational means and environments enable to measure, soften and prevent school fear; to fulfil the educational research in Lithuanian schools, present an analysis of data, draw conclusions and give recommendations to educational managers, heads of schools, teachers, schoolchildren and their parents about decreasing the formation of school fear’s states and situations. Methodology or methods / research instruments or sources used: the research of the problem of school fear was fulfilled using methods of an analysis of scientific literature, questioning and methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis of research results. Researching the school fear problem and its connection with improvement of competences and personal characteristics, there were questioned 1193 senior students and 180 teachers from 45 secondary, youth schools and gymnasiums in 11 Lithuanian towns. Analysed the scientific literature has confirmed the actuality of the school fear problem. This problem is researched by various scientific schools, searching for the most propitious ways of solving this problem. The school fear is a multi-scientific phenomenon: educational, psychological and managerial dimensions are expressed. Moreover, school fear is an individual, organizational and social phenomenon. The problem of school fear is fixed in different sized towns and schools of different types. The expression of school fear in Lithuania is compared to the results of the same researches fulfilled in the countries of Western Europe.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 84
  • Page Range: 153-159
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Lithuanian
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