CHARACTERISTICS OF PRE-ADOLESCENTS SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT TO THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
CHARACTERISTICS OF PRE-ADOLESCENTS SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT TO THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: One of the periods in which frequent difficulties of school adaptation are registered is pre-adolescence, especially the beginning of pre-adolescence, which coincides in students with the passage from elementary to secondary school and which on the foundation of a fragile emotional and psychic balance as well as personality in formation, numerous adaptation behaviors are assimilated and long lasting behavioral patterns are formed, which will be transferred in future activities. In addition to these changes and preadolescent specific features, we mention the shaping of another student's specific educational activity, resulting from its new features that begin to manifest with the passage of the secondary school student. Taking into account the major changes that take place during the preadolescent period, numerous authors characterize this period as being one of “juvenile crisis”, “a dramatic mood”, “a stormy age”, due to the permanent oscillations between affective moods and extreme attitudes, between the status of a child and the status of an adult, due to the opposite reactions as compared to the previous ones. We believe that we cannot speak of a crisis as long as the features, events and transformations of this age are within the limits of normality. What can impress the parents or teachers is the rudeness and the fastness of some manifestations. Transformation and restructuring that occur during this period may favor the emergence of behavioral disturbances, but it depends on factors such as the external environment in which the child lives, which can stimulate or prevent such events. We speak of a crisis, but the educational one, where these changes are met wrongly, in an inadequate educational environment without having the basic psycho-pedagogical information.

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