Preliminary communication
The Behaviour of Children in the Yugoslav Supplementary School in Berlin and Their Attitudes to the School
Melita Švob
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Zvonimir Kotarac
; Zagreb, Croatia
Zdenko Ivezić
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As a part of their project “The health of migrants’ children”, the authors conducted a survey among Yugoslav children attending Yugoslav supplementary courses in Berlin. With the help of Rutter’s and Schaller’s questionnaire, they examined teachers’ evaluations of the behaviour of these children, as well as the pupils own attitudes to the supplementary school. The preliminary results showed that in a sample of 232 pupils the teachers considered 43.1% to have disturbed behaviour (aggressiveness, neurosis or hyperkinesis). The pupils, for the most part, had a negative attitude to supplementary courses, while only a fourth experienced satisfaction. About a half of the pupils felt better in the German than in the Yugoslav supplementary school. Analysing the conditions in which the supplementary courses were carried on, the authors assume that these had an influence on the teachers’ and pupils’ evaluations, and they therefore believe that factors effecting the conduction of courses should be taken into consideration when applying tests. They also assume that the manner of conducting supplementary courses is of significance in regard to the incorporation of returnee children in the Yugoslav school system.
Keywords
supplementary school; behaviour of children; Berlin
Hrčak ID:
127982
URI
Publication date:
28.4.1989.
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