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Political and social factors related to secondary school pupils' attitude towards school

The purpose of this investigation was to determine sociopoli
tical factors related to students' attitude towards school.
A questionnaire was compiled based on the literature study and
was completed by 306 students doing standards eight, nine and ten
at a secondary school in Benoni.
Five socio-political factors were identified, namely: school
experience, extrinsic motivation, pedagogical deprivation,
political socialisation and school administration.
The empirical study revealed:
* A positive attitude towards school by the research group.
* Significant correlations between attitude towards school
and the five independent variables.
* No significant difference in attitude towards
school of: boys and girls, standard eight, nine and ten
students and students staying with parents or with
guardians.
* The maximum variance in attitude towards school
explained by a combination of variables is 43.2%.
Recommendations are made for the enrichment of the family and
school environments and areas of possible future research
postulated. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/18148
Date04 1900
CreatorsMashile, Elias Oupa, 1963-
ContributorsMellet, S. M.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1 online resource (xv, 156 leaves)

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