Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques
2019, Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages: 445-449
In this paper, the authors do not set the task of
determining, which of the socialization mechanisms relates
specifically to the stage of adaptation, individualization, or
integration, as all of them, to some degree, affect the
processes of adaptation, formation of individualization, and
integration of a child in the team. The authors have a
different task, namely, to consider how a teacher should
organize social and pedagogical activities in a multiethnic
classroom in order to timely analyze the involvement of
children in one or another mechanism and facilitate the
implementation of each mechanism of socialization.
Thus, the aim of the article is to identify and describe the
mechanisms of socialization of second-graders in polyethnic
school, and to provide recommendations for implementing
these mechanisms in an educational organization with a small
percentage of a non-indigenous ethnic group.
ability and diligence; increased situational anxiety; reduced
retention time; a sharp negative change of motivation for
participation in sport and after-school clubs. In this case,
children may have quick success at the first stage of entering
activities. However, with decrease in the rate of achievement
and its emotional coloring, cognitive de-motivation of the
child for this type of activity occurs. At the same time, if
parents let themselves be led by the child in changing the
content of additional education, despite the child’s abilities
and real inclinations, in the long term, it can lead to a
complete refusal to participate in extracurricular activities. In
a polyethnic classroom, the first and second forms of
cognitive maladaptation occur more often, because in
additional education acquiring knowledge is emotionally
colored and, therefore, more comfortable for the child.
The emotional type of school disadaptation is associated
with the development of four psychological constructs of a
second-grader. The first construct is motivation for success.
When disadaptation occurs, such motivation decreases during
unsuccessful studies and in anticipation of possible failures.
This kind of motivation gives way to the motivation for
avoiding failure, when the child is focused not on getting a
high result, accompanied by positive assessment of others,
but on the desire not to leave the comfort zone of “totally
average”. At the same time, s/he makes considerable efforts
not to get negative assessment, and, instead of the desired
comfort, the child may experience discomfort and
embarrassment, and the amount of efforts aimed at
maintaining a “C” is even higher than the desire to score
victory. Such a striving in polyethnic school is manifested in
the child’s isolation from learning activities, and, therefore,
from the classmates, which further reduces the pace of his/her
social adaptation, does not develop the child's stress
resistance and readiness to meet challenges.
The second construct is the child’s self-assessment in the
student’s role-playing function. As the study showed, in the
situation of school disadaptation, the self-esteem of a
younger schoolchild is reduced, which causes a situation of
constant anxiety before any form of activity and interaction, a
feeling of his/her impotence and secondary infantility. This is
most clearly manifested in a polyethnic classroom, when
interpersonal cooperation is also multicultural, and
capriciousness, tearfulness and bad habits such as nail biting,
and biting a pen or a pencil develop.
The third construct is the level of claims. It lies in the fact
how complex are the goals the child sets for him/herself.
Reducing the level of claims to the zone of actual
development does not contribute to development of new
types of social interconnections and acquisition of new types
of activities. However, school disadaptation often leads to
underestimation of the levels of claims below the vital level,
and the child ceases to set goals on his/her own, becoming an
obedient performer of someone else’s, not always good, will.
As a result, s/he can get under the influence of informal
leaders and, eventually, grow into a problem teenager.
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Methodological Framework
Signs of school disadaptation are very diverse, so it is
logical to divide them into types that are listed below.
The physiological type manifests itself mostly when the
child is under physical exertion, that is, during and after the
break, as well as during PE classes and the classes
immediately following them. This type manifests itself
verbally, in the form of the child’s complaints of fatigue,
headaches and abdomen pain, lack of appetite at breakfast in
the school cafeteria, or at a snack during the break. In non-
verbal form, the manifestation of physiological signs may be
observed in a sharp and inexplicable reddening of the skin, in
discrete redness or paleness of the skin, and in general pallor;
in relaxed posture, chaotic movements or, vice versa,
sluggishness and slow response. Combination of verbal and
non-verbal signs can occur, such as: voice trembling and
tremolo in fingertips, obsessive ((stereotype) word repetition
and compulsory movements, stuttering, etc.
The cognitive type manifests itself in three forms: the
first one - signs of disadaptation in the course of educational
activities at school; the second – in the process of doing
home assignment; and the third -in the child’s attitude to
cognitive process in the system of additional education. Each
form has its own signs of disadaptation, as well as
generalized ones, manifested in any kind of cognitive
activities. Thus, the first signs of school disadaptation are:
lack of cognitive interest in the forms and content of learning,
that the child’s classmates find interesting; lack or decrease
in achievement in those activities that the student has so far
easily managed; deliberate forgetfulness, when at home the
child easily reproduces poems and applies rules,
etc.,
however, in class s/he is unable to present the same
educational information.
At home, signs of disadaptation are: lack of information
about school activities or concealment of such information by
the child; constant postponing of doing homework, on a far-
fetched pretext or without any; recourse to the assistance of
parents, even in such types of assignments that the child used
to fulfil independently. Therefore, when choosing the level of
difficulty or the size of the task, the child wants to choose the
simplest and the shortest possible. Constant negligence in
doing the task, carelessness in storage, collecting and using
educational supplies becomes characteristic of the child.
The fourth construct is the locus of control, that is the
child’s ability to take responsibility for his/her actions or
delegate this responsibility to others. In case of successful
adaptation, the child's internal locus is expressed by the
phrase "I’ll do it myself." In this case, the child develops both
a desire, and an ability to take responsibility for him/herself,
as well as criteria for assessing socially significant activities.
In a wide cognitive process, signs of learning
maladaptation are: decrease in the general level of working
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