Abstract
The present study aimed to apply a programme based on Hellison’s Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility model (TPSR), traditionally used in Physical Education, to other school subjects and analyse aspects related to motivation and satisfaction of basic psychological needs among other variables. The programme was applied for 7 months during one academic year, all students receiving at least 60% of the lessons through this teaching methodology. A mixed method research methodology and quasiexperimental design was implemented in three schools (two primary, one secondary), with a total of 29 teachers and 272 students (45 control, 227 experimental group) involved. The students completed a questionnaire before and after the study and the teachers underwent semi-structured interviews at the end of the intervention. The results indicated improvements for the experimental group in personal and social responsibility, the psychological mediator index, the self-determination index, prosocial behaviours and teacher climate, as well as a reduction in amotivation and antisocial behaviours. The results were similar for primary and secondary school. The interviews yielded positive opinions and showed suitability of the method to be applied in the rest of subjects. It is concluded that TPSR can be an appropriate methodology to be implemented in the different curriculum subjects to improve basic psychological need satisfaction, motivation, prosocial behaviours and classroom climate.
Highlights
Over the years, there has been the social demand that standard education provide students with the necessary tools to be able to adapt to society’s constant changes
The questions were: (1) What is your opinion on the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility model compared to your previous lessons?; (2) Would you like to continue applying TPSR to your lessons in the future?; (3) Do you think TPSR has helped you teach your students values such as effort, respect or leadership, besides the standard academic contents?
Teachers who applied TPSR in their subjects perceived the model as an appropriate methodology to improve values and behaviours, easy to apply and feasible to be maintained in the future
Summary
There has been the social demand that standard education provide students with the necessary tools to be able to adapt to society’s constant changes. A fundamental aspect in order to satisfy this demand is to promote autonomy and self-sufficiency among students [1,2] and to improve the learning atmosphere [3], reducing the dependence on the teacher and increasing cooperative work with classmates [4]. The “Achievement goal theory” [7], based on the individual’s position as regards the motivations for their behaviours and, on the other hand, the “Self-determination theory” [8,9].
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