Open AccessTHE ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS TOWARDS PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SERBIA
Author(s) -
Bisera Jevtić
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
problems of education in the 21st century
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2538-7111
pISSN - 1822-7864
DOI - 10.33225/pec/17.75.34
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , psychology , raising (metalworking) , mathematics education , academic achievement , quality (philosophy) , pedagogy , social psychology , philosophy , mathematics , geometry , epistemology
Analyzing the significance and the role of school and teachers in the encouragement of prosocial behaviour of the learners in secondary schools, the following problem appeared: the connection between the teachers’ encouragement of prosocial behaviour and the academic achievement in the secondary schools in Serbia through the following segments: procedures and activities used by teachers, and the interrelatedness of prosocial behaviour and academic achievement. A review of theoretical findings and a study conducted on the sample of 695 respondents are presented. The method of theoretical analysis and synthesis, the causal non-experimental method and the descriptive method are applied. The applied techniques include content analysis, scaling and evaluation. The results showed that teachers’ activities partly promoted prosocial behaviour. The results of the research pointed to certain pedagogical implications: the reform of the educational system in Serbia; a change of educational objectives and tasks; establishing a continuity between all levels of the educational system and raising cooperation with parents; educational professional services to teachers in the area of raising their interest in acquiring and applying strategies and skills directed at educating prosocially oriented personalities and improving the quality of their work.Key words: school indicators, interrelatedness of predictors, encouragement of prosocial behaviour, academic achievement, comparative analysis.