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Student control ideology and the science classroom environment in urban secondary schools of sudan
Author(s) -
Harty Harold,
Hassan Hassan A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660200907
Subject(s) - ideology , psychosocial , perception , humanism , control (management) , mathematics education , class (philosophy) , pedagogy , science education , psychology , sociology , political science , management , neuroscience , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , law , economics
Abstract An examination was made concerning the relationships between Sudanese secondary science teachers' pupil control ideology and their students' perceptions/observations of the psychosocial environment of their science classrooms. One hundred secondary science teachers were classified as possessing humanistic ( N = 20) or custodial ( N = 20) control ideologies. A class ( N = 40) of students was randomly selected for every teacher in both groups. The findings revealed that no significant relationships existed between the control ideologies of the teachers and their students' perceptions/observations of the classroom environment. Custodialism in control ideology was significantly related to the classroom environment psychosocial aspect of low “support.” Discussion and implications of the findings have been approached from both Sudanese and American perspectives.