Challenges of school going adolescents: Perception of Parents and Teachers

U. Harikrishnan¹ , Grace Lalhlupuii Sailo²

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.11 , pp.12-15, Nov-2020

Online published on Nov 30, 2020

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Abstract :
The study probes into the perception of parents and teachers on the challenges faced by school going adolescents. The design is cross sectional in nature and the sample consists of 60 parents of school-going adolescents and 20 teachers of class eight to twelve from one government and one private school in Kollam District, Kerala. The data was collected using free listing and analysed through Anthropac software. Parents mostly perceived that school going adolescents faced a lot of tension and were not studying at home. On the other hand, teachers perceived that their adolescent students faced challenges such as exam fear, negative influence by media, economic burdens at home, low participation of parents in their children’s education and poor academic performance. Findings bring out the need to integrate active cooperation and participation parents and teachers for the overall development of school going adolescents.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Adolescents, Challenges, Perception, School-going, Parents, Teachers

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