Answers: Educational Psychology Questions related to Adolescence 05/01/2017
QUESTIONS:
a) What do you understand by the term "Adolescence".
b) Identify and discuss the problems that adolescents face.
c) Suggest (Discuss) the ways to help adolescents in the problems that they face.
d) Roles as a teacher to teach adolescents.
ANSWERS:
The word adolescents come from the Latin
word ‘adolescence’ which means ‘to grow’.It is the period storm and stress of
human life.It is very crucial period of one’s life.Which covers roughly from
12-18/19+ years.The most important fact about adolescence is that it is a period of transition from
childhood to adulthood.Transition from one period to another always associated
with some problems.Adolescents is not an exception and it is also associated
with some problems.
PROBLEMS
OF ADOLESCENTS
1.Sex
problems
2.Emotional
problems
3.Social
problems
4.Educational
problems
5.Problem
leisure
REMEDIATION OF
ADOLESCENCE PROBLEMS
The needs of the adolescents haveto
be satisfied and their problems are to be realized in a proper way in order to
help them in growing and developing properly.The task is serious and desires
all dimensional efforts. Some of these efforts are mentioned.
1.
To
have the proper knowledge of adolescents psychology.
Adolescents is the
bridge between childhood and adulthood. The behavior of the adolescent and his
personality needs a careful study.It is essentials to have the knowledge of the
adolescent’s psychology in order to understand them.What are their specific
needs?What type of changes do take place during this period?What are the problems
faced by the adolescents?How should they be treated?All this is essential to be
known by the parents’ teachers and administrators who have to deal with them.
2.
Providing
suitable environment for proper growth.
The growth stops at the
end of adolescence after attaining maturity.Adolescents must be provided with
balanced diet.Their eating habits should be properly checked up.They must be
given knowledge of health,personal hygiene,cleanliness,various diseases and
their prevention etc…to keep them fit for growing.
3.
Rendering
proper sex education
Sex plays very dominant role at the
age of adolescence.The rapid physiological changes,the secretion of sex
hormones,the sudden awakening of sex instinct and urges all necessitate the
provision of adequate sex information and education for adolescent.
4.
Proper
dealing with adolescents.
Recent researches in the field of adolescent’s
psychology have revealed that the adults,the parents,elders and the teachers
and their unreasonable ways and points of view are the real problems of
adolescence.They are in the habit of criticizing the adolescents and always
impose their authority and assert their likings and disliking’s.They forget
that there is a generation gap between them and adolescents. In dealing with
them the parents and teachers should realize that the demands of their peer
group are more important than their own expectation.Youths are more in need of
models and not critics.The elders must give a deep consideration to adolescents
needs and problems.it is futile to punish misbehavior.The root causes should be
removed.
5.
Training
of emotions and satisfaction of emotional needs.
The age of adolescents is marked by too much
intensity,force,instability and immaturity of emotions.Their emotions can be
aroused with a slight provocation.Emotions should be properly trained and their
emotional energies should diverted towards the constructive ends.
The adolescents suffer
from some emotional hungers. They have a strong desire to love and to be
loved.They need to be accepted by their age mates and every adolescent aspires
that he should be admired and praised.
He needs that he should
be given freedom to proceed in his own way and adopt his own style of life but
on the other hand, needs protection,shelter and affection of the parents,elders
and teachers.He becomes disturbed if he is not provided proper security and
freedom from anxiety.The parents and teachers should take care of these needs
of the adolescents.They must be given what they need in terms of their
emotional requirements.
6.
To
take care of the special interests of the adolescents.
The adolescent is the age of wide
interests and aptitudes.A great care should be taken to locate the special
interests and aptitudes of the adolescents.According to their interests and
aptitudes they should be provided with learning experiences and opportunities
for participation in co-curricular activities.The curriculum should provide the
open choice for various subjects and activities according to the tastes and
temperaments of the adolescents.
7.
Providing
religious and moral education.
One of the causes of increasing
restlessness,indiscipline,dishonesty,and aimlessness among the youth of India
is that there is no proper provision of religious and moral education in our
system of education.Actually the roots and the goals of the all the religions are
one andthe same.If we try to do away with the rituals,the essence of all the
religions is morality.Therefore it is the education for morality and character
formation,which is to be provided by religious education and every school,home
and other social agency can work in this direction.the parents,teachers,social
workers and administrators should join
their hands in creating suitable
atmosphere and offering opportunities of practicing moral qualities.
As mentioned earlier,adolescents have
great attraction for ideals.Therefore,in the religious instruction provided to
them,the emphasis should be shifted from the rituals to idealsReligious
instruction and moral education can play a leading role in proper development
of adolescents. But it should never be confined to a mere communication of
knowledge about morals.moral habits are always caught from the environment.
8.
Provision
for vocational education.
These is a strong desire of
achieving independence in adolescents.Economic factors obstruct their way.Therefore,they
are worried for acquiring self-sufficiency in economic aspect.
What occupation should they choose,
how can they earn their livelihood are some questions,the answers of which they
try to seek.Here arises the need of proper vocational guidance and vocational
education for them .The youths of today are bewildered and aimless because of
the indefiniteness of their vocation. Therefore the strong need of today is to
provide job oriented and vocation based practical education to the adolescents.
The government,society,parents and the teachers should make their efforts in
this direction.
9.
Arranging
guidance services
Lake of guidance creates aimlessness,identifiniteness and restlessness
among the adolescents.The adolescents have their problems which need careful
attention and proper solution.
Guidance services should be
organized in a proper from both inside and outside the schools. There should be
well trained guidance workers and personnel.as far as possible,individual
guidance should be provided.
The list of suggestions regarding the solution of adolescents problems
and the satisfaction of their needs cannot be said as complete with above
mentioned few points.The task is gigantic and requires strenuous efforts from
all directions.The focus if guidance is always the individual and not the
problem.Every adolescent is to be studied carefully as he requires special
guidance and help for the solution of his problems and satisfaction of his
needs.
Role of the teacher
The period of transition from
childhood to adulthood is called adolescents life.All type of changes
biological, social cognitive etc.Take place during the adolescents stage.Teacher
can do a lot of help to adolescents to develop a balanced personality.Teacher
should have responsibility of guiding the development of adolescent of
personality.There are 3 ways in which a teacher can help adolescence in developing
his balanced personality
1.
Teacher
shouldunderstand their problems and help to solve them.
Today the problems and anxieties of
adolescents are growing larger day by day. They can not solve these problems
without help of others. Teacher should play a role of friend and philosopher
and guide to provide help to adolescents. As a friend teacher should present
him /herself to adolescents as a role model as a person.
As a guide,teacher should
provide them information’s which parents refuse to give and which in society is
not easily available to him. Specifically it means providing sex education and career
education.
Teacher can build interest club,hobby
club,subject club or activity club according to the needs of the students. Students
should be put according to their interests.
As for example, if some
students have gardening as a hobby then we can make a hobby club of those
students who link gardening as a hobby. Teacher should play a role of guide in
these clubs.
2.
Teacher
should be an ideal person for them.
As we know that every student wants to
imitate the actions of his/her teacher.So a teacher should present an example
of ideal person to their students.As for adolescents,they face the changes of
childhood.at this time many physical changes are found in them.
At this time
they can attract towards opposite sex due to their changes feeling.Here teacher
should present his ideal life.so that students could learn from the life of
his/her teacher.Teacher should behave positively and affectionately to them and
teacher should show the practical use of human values in his/her own life.
If teacher
only speaks verbally about human values and does not follow them in his/her own
life he/she cannot expect from adolescents to acquire them if their lives so
teacher should present and make his personality balanced first and then try
developing a balanced personality in adolescents.
3.
Teacher‘s
help in cognitive development.
Many important cognitive
developments occur during this time.Weseal capacity andstyle of though
broadness,awareness,imagination,judgment insight in adolescents.
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