Stručni rad
PEDAGOGICAL MEASURES IN THE SYSTEM OF INTERVENTIONS FOR RISK BEHAVIOUR STUDENTS
Dejana Bouillet
orcid.org/0000-0002-0486-3378
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sažetak
The Act on Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (National Gazette, 87/2008) defines behavioural disorders as special needs. This enables students with such behaviour to have an appropriate curriculum and forms of assistance in school. However, in the existing educational system students with behavioural disorders rarely receive adequate professional help, which reduces their educational possibilities in the long run. At the same time, in today’s social
conditions students show numerous patterns of behaviour that significantly disrupt the process of education (both at the individual and the group levels) and thus present a considerable educational challenge to all the participants in the educational process.
Recent professional literature provides plentiful evidence regarding the possibilities of implementation of quality interventions of short duration in the natural environment of children and youth, even when they belong to high risk behaviour population (e.g. addicts, delinquents recidivists). In other words, schools represent the environment in which adequate professional help and support should be provided for risk behaviour students (RBS). In this regard,
the system of pedagogical measures which are based on inducing changes in the student’s behaviour must be mentioned. However, only the measure of extended professional treatment can be characterised as early psychosocial intervention.
That is why the possibilities and needs of expert implementation of that pedagogical measure are analyzed in the article, both from the aspect of the RBS needs, and from the aspect of the legal possibilities of its implementation. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the strengths and weak nesses of the school system, which makes the implementation of several legal rights of the RBS (im)possible. Among them, the right to advice and help in problem solving is especially important regarding the student’s best interest. Finally, the author suggests some realistic steps which could improve the efficiency of the system of pedagogical measures leading to the further development of the interventions for RBS, which is the aim of the National Strategy for the Prevention of Behavioural Disorders among Children and Youth from 2009 to 2012, adopted in Croatia in 2009 (National Gazette, 98/09).
Ključne riječi
pedagogical measures; interventions; extended professional treatment; student’s risk behaviour
Hrčak ID:
82852
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.4.2010.
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