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Students’ absences from class

Mirko Marušić orcid.org/0000-0002-1461-4228 ; I. gimnazija, Split, Hrvatska

Sažetak

Our school’s reality is characterized with a more widespread occurrence of sudents’ deliberate class skipping. There are many outlooks on this phenomenon, but a few solutions. Everyday indicators warn about the complexity of this problem which demands an answer. Educators’ active and conscious participation, including the necessary changes in their behavior, is required in order to solve this situation. It was reasonable to observe and analyze this unfortunate situation to understand its true causes, which has been the very purpose of our research. Its task was to consult the opinions of students as well as to consider different types of family and school communication. This research was carried out in the third grades of the First Grammar School in Split where the author teaches mathematics and physics. It was conducted in six classes of the third grade (2 of classical and 4 of linguistic orientation). 154 students were included in the research (31 boys and 123 girls). It is important to point out that there has been a particular attitude of both students and parents towards the educational process, in which, according to many of them, obtaining good, i.e. the best possible grades is the only and the most important goal. Therefore, students and parents cleverly calculate students’ absences and manage to fi nd justifi cations for them.

Ključne riječi

skipping classes; justifi ed and unjustifi ed absences; survey; a student; a parent

Hrčak ID:

82602

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/82602

Datum izdavanja:

30.9.2009.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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