Abstract
This paper presents the results of research of children’s attitude toward education and atmosphere at primary school – what they like, which relationships exist among students and between students and classroom teachers, which activities are available during their free time at school and outside of it, and how they understand and spend their time with others at school. The research is focused on studying personal attitude, feelings of children, as well as choice and real opportunities of different types of schools in Bulgaria. Students share their opinion and ideas of what they would have changed in their own school if they had such an opportunity. The specificity of children’s attitude towards public and private schools in the capital and large cities is especially clearly visible. Private schools applying new ideas and pedagogical philosophy are more liberal and focused on children’s style in pedagogical interaction, have more flexible organization of educational process and school life inside and outside the classroom. Students’opinion about national and private schools as well as schools located in capital, capital area and provinces differs significantly. This is due to specifics of educational environment and different quality of education in different types of primary schools in Bulgaria.
Highlights
The research is based on the studies by teachers and psychologists on the problems of urban education in different types of schools in Bulgaria [1,2,3,4,5]; numerous studies on the educational environment conducted recently in different countries [6,7,8,9]; works analyzing problems of democratizing education [10,11].The results of empirical research demonstate children’s opinion and their ideas about education at primary schools in capital, large cities and towns (514 children aged 10-11 studying mainly in the 4th grade)
Children had to share whether they liked school they attended, wanted to go there, and liked their schoolmates; what they wanted to do in classroom with teachers and during their free time; what they would have changed in school life if they had such an opportunity; ideas what could be done for their own school to make it better
The first assumption consisting in the fact that Bulgarian schools are democratic with traditional humanistic orientation in education has been confirmed for primary schools
Summary
The results of empirical research demonstate children’s opinion and their ideas about education at primary schools in capital, large cities and towns (514 children aged 10-11 studying mainly in the 4th grade). The research sample involved different types of schools in capital and provinces. The research aimed at detecting the implementation of ideas for liberal and humanistic education oriented toward children and students’ satisfaction with training and organization of their time at school and methods of teaching and evaluation.
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