n Verkennende ondersoek na die selfkonsep van leerders met spesiale onderwysbehoeftes

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The purpose of the present study was an exploratory examination/study of the self-concept oflearners with Special Education Needs. To this end, all 1005 subjects completed the Piers-HarrisSelf Concept Questionnaire once. This questionnaire consists of 80 statements divided into sixsubscales i.e. : Behaviour, Intellectual and School status, Physical appearance, Anxiety, Popularityand Happiness and satisfaction. A total score is then culculated from those separate dimensions.Learners in the four Special Schools were selected per school as follows:• in random order• sex• medium of instruction• technical subject• hostel/day scholar• grade/standardCorrelations between self-concept variables were examined, but two other questionnairescontaining certain biographical details and information concerning the learners' academic andtechnical marks and the parents' marital status, were also used in the study. By using these twoquestionnaires, correlations between self-concept variables and certain biographical variables suchas the following were possible :• sex and self-concept• medium of instruction and self-concept• living in the school hostel and self-concept • evaluation of relationship with technical teacher and self-concept• academic achievement and self-concept• technical subject and self-concept and• marital status of parents and self-concept correlationsThe following decisive correlations emerged as a result of the study :• regarding the correlation between self-concept variables, Happiness and satisfaction as well asPopularity featured strongly with limited Anxiety. Physical Appearance correlated strongly withPopularity and with Happiness and satisfaction.• regarding the correlation between sex and self-concept, it appeared that boys have a better/higherself-concept than girls with regard to Physical Appearance, Happiness and satisfaction andlimited Anxiety.• regarding the correlation between medium of instruction and self-concept, there appeared to be asignificant link between the self-concept variables: Anxiety, Popularity and Happiness andsatisfaction. English speaking learners registered higher values on the scores than Afrikaansspeaking learners in all three self-concept variables.• regarding the correlation between living in the school hostel and self-concept, it appeared that dayscholars had higher self-concept scores with regard to Physical Appearance, Popularity,Happiness and satisfaction than hostel residents.• regarding the correlation between evaluation of relationship with technical teacher andself-concept, it appeared that there was a significant link between evaluation of the relationshipwith the teacher and two self-concept variables : Behaviour and Intellectual and School Status.Learners to whom the technical teacher meant a great deal, had higher self-concept scores inIntellectual and School Status than those to whom the technical teacher meant little. regarding the correlation between academic achievement and self-concept and sex, there weresignificant correlations between academic achievement and self-concept variables such as :Behaviour, Intellectual and School Status and Happiness and satisfaction. Differences betweenthe size of correlations between boys and girls were however, insignificant.• regarding the correlation between technical subject and self-concept, there are significant linksbetween technical subject and Physical Appearance, Anxiety, Popularity and Happiness andsatisfaction.• regarding the correlation between marital status of parents and self-concept variables, it appearedthat learners whose parents are in the process of divorce, scored lower for Anxiety. Theyexperienced a reasonably high degree of Anxiety and also less Happiness and satisfactioncompared to persons whose parents were married or divorced.From the results of this study, it appears that the placing of a learner in a special school, despite thecriticisms expressed by opponents, does show positive correlations between self-concept andcertain biographical variables as discussed.

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