The environment, which includes the immediate milieu
of the child, influences the child in his totality.
The environment has an influence in all spheres of
the child's life, such as in the intellectual and
mental, on those personality traits which will
develop into dominant ones, the emotional sphere,
which includes anxiety, his attitude and disposition
towards other people and towards objects, his relationships
with others and his level of academic
achievement.
The aim of this study is to determine whether an
altered milieu - a change from the parental home to
a special school - will have a verifiable influence
on the personality and academic achievements of children
with behavioural deviations.
Available literature on the personality, intelligence
and academic achievement of both the well-adjusted
and maladjusted child, the origin of misbehaviour,
the manifestations of misbehaviour and the milieu as
both causative and therapeutic factor in behavioural
deviations was studied.
The sample consisted of all Standard 6, Standard 7
and Standard 8 pupils of both sexes who were referred
to the special school from their parental homes
in the course of the first term. A selected battery
of tests, consisting of standardized psychometric
tests was applied individually to the subjects upon
their arrival at the special school. After a period
of at least six months the subjects were given the
same battery of tests in a group, with the exception
of the intelligence test, which was taken down individually.
The test and background data were then tabulated and
some generally valid conclusions were reached which
could be made applicable to the group as a whole.
After a period of sojourn at the special school, for
example, the subjects did better academically and
fewer failures occurred than in previous years.
Their average intelligence quotient improved, but
their anxiety level increased and their general level
of study orientation deteriorated. Personality
traits which figured more prominently included selfconfidence,
group dependency, dominance and activity.
Lethargy as a result of increased ergic tension
decreased and the subjects were less phlegmatic
and diffident.
One could then come to the conclusion that a changed
milieu does bring about a change as r.egards the academic
achievement and certain personality traits of
the subjects. / Thesis (MEd)--PU vir CHO, 1981
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/9500 |
| Date | January 1980 |
| Creators | Coetzee, Jacoba Hendrina |
| Publisher | Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | other |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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