What influences a child’s learning is always a hot topic, and this time I am raising it in relation to the current climate in education and its effect on children, parents and educators.
A strong and constant message arising from research, literature and counselling courses is that whatever the circumstances, the key to learning successfully lies within ourselves – in our dispositions and attitudes and how we make sense from experiences.
Lillian Katz usefully defines attitudes as a set of beliefs, and dispositions as the demonstration of those beliefs in behaviour1. So, for example, a boy whose anxiety when faced with anything different leaves him unprepared to rise to a new challenge – his anxiety has led him to adopt a very cautious disposition.
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