Professional paper

HOMEWORK – THE EXCEPTION AND NOT THE RULE

Stjepan Sokol ; Primary school Vijenac, Osijek, Croatia
Vesna Vrbošić ; Primary school Vijenac, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Even after seven years of thinking about the purpose of homework and intensive work on the implementation of agreed views on homework, there is still a prevailing public opinion that homework is everything that a pupil does at home in order to reinforce acquired knowledge and skills, i.e. to prepare for acquiring new content during the teaching process. We, on the contrary, consider homework to be a mere written task completion without any freedom of choice. Therefore by taking a different approach we wanted to motivate pupils to actively participate in the lesson in order to more effectively and permanently acquire and implement learning content. We conducted a research on the purpose of homework, on the time it takes, on its complexity, attitudes to homework and suggestions about homework. Pupils, parents and teachers participated in the survey. The analysis of the expressed attitudes indicates that there has been a shift in relieving pupils from the homework load, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, especially in individualised approach to pupils.

Keywords

homework; freedom of choice; more active work; motivation; responsibility

Hrčak ID:

121335

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/121335

Publication date:

13.6.2013.

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