A transitional period from primary to secondary school is not always smooth an successful for many students. For psychologically weaker students, the transition to the fifth form can cause a negative attitude to school and learning as well as influence not only their progress but their psyche and physical development in general. It is concidered that the fifth form is one of the critical points of learning disorders. Unwilling to learn students find themselves on the street more often than any other students. According to the survey of educational politicians and educators, the main reason of non-attendance of school is students’ unwillingness to learn, fatigue or the decline of their interest in subjects. Students are usually dissatisfied with school activities, because it is difficult to study, there is an overload, constant fatigue or they are just not interested in subjects. The target of the post-graduate paper is social educator’s activity in a secondary school. The problem analysed is reluctance to learn at secondary school. The hypothesis of the work is that there is a possibility to develop positive emotions and change students’ attitude to learning through the implementation of successful students’ adaptation into school society. The objective of the survey is to analyse a social educator’s role and activity functions for overcoming the fifth formers’ unwillingness to learn. The objective has been realized while analysing social educator’s role and activity... [to full text]

Children who have stopped attending school and do not have firm educational, cognition and activity motivation are disappointed about possibility to study, and the losses of learning they themselves and the society experience are long-lasting: their illiteracy makes it harder for them to participate in the society’s activities, social and economic insecurity as well as the probability to belong to socially isolated groups grow. The aim of the research was to state the reasons which weaken pupils’ motivation to study and encourage non-attendance and reluctance to learn. The object of the research was pupils of the 5th – 10th forms who belong to the risk group: 1) those who do not attend school; 2) those who attend it badly; 3) those who are unsuccessful in their studies. The following tasks were set during the research: 1) having analyzed pedagogical-psychological literature to present the concept of the motivation to study, to clarify the reasons for reluctance to learn; 2) to investigate the peculiarities of the motivation to study characteristic of the pupils of the 5th-10th forms; 3) to analyze and compare the differences in the motivation to study in these groups; 4) to compare the reasons for the reluctance to learn. Theoretical and empirical methods as well as the method of mathematical statistics were used in the investigation. The investigation was carried out together with other MA students, 667 informants were questioned. As... [to full text]