Magistra Iadertina, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2007.
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ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL ABSENCE IN VIEW OF MARITAL STATUS OF THE PARENTS
Smiljana Zrilić
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Sažetak
School nonattendance has become a modern behavior pattern of high school students. There is an increasing number of students who skip classes without a justified cause, so the total number of absences increases constantly. There are several reasons for such a behavior, and they mostly include individual characteristics of students (adolescence, emotional problems, low self-control, low self-respect and self-esteem, anxiety, avoiding duties), and elements related to peers and wider social context (alcohol and drug consummation, peers that practice nonattendance, idleness, partying, avoiding extracurricular activities, propensity for stealing, vandalism, fights, etc.). Some of the most important risk factors for nonattendance are: lack of teachers' support, non-cohesive class (negative school environment), extensive curriculum (overloading), teachers' failure to comply with the regulations related to testing students' knowledge, teaching as a one-way process (teachers' autonomy), overtolerant or overstrict teachers, lack of professional associates, frequent antisocial behavior in school, etc. Past researches showed that the variables related to family are important determinants of all forms of unacceptable behaviors in school. Some of the most important and most researched determinants are: education style (authoritative or overtolerant), malfunctioning marriage of the parents, addict parents, economic uncertainty, lack of supervision and control, noncommitted and inconsistent parents, inadequate expectations (too great or too low expectations), single parents, lack of cooperation with teachers. The modern phenomenon of parents' readiness to excuse the unjustified absence from school is closely related to increased tolerance of the parents toward school absence.
This paper analyses the justified and unjustified absences in relation to marital status of the parents and their readiness to excuse their child's unjustified absence from school
Ključne riječi
Absence; nonattendance; parents' marital status; family; justified and unjustified absences
Hrčak ID:
21157
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Datum izdavanja:
18.11.2007.
Posjeta: 4.677 *