Castelli, Stefano and Addimando, Loredana and Pepe, Alessandro (2015) Exploring challenging classroom behaviors from teachers’ perspective: a mixed-method study. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 3 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2353-4192
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Abstract
Background: In order to explore the representation of challenging students’ behaviors through teachers’ words, the present paper reports Italian teachers’ replies to the open-ended instruction “Describe the behavior of the student you find most challenging in your class”, analyzed through a mixed-method approach. Participants and procedure: The respondents were teachers from primary and lower secondary schools (N = 518) in the city of Milan and in other urban and sub-urban areas of the Lombardy Region, Italy. Results: Results from correspondence analysis of the open question suggested two main factors. The first factor, labeled perceived willfulness, seems to confirm that in the appraisal of challenging behaviors teachers’ personal beliefs about the origin of students’ misconducts play an important role. When behaviors are perceived as “involuntary” (such as learning difficulties), teachers seems to play a more care-taking role in comparison to conducts that are viewed as voluntarily destructive. The second factor can be described as the impact that behaviors have on the teaching process. Conclusions: The qualitative analysis seems to accurately capture even the nuances of what is portrayed by the quantitative survey and helps us in understanding why, in other Italian studies, the Weak student emerged as the most difficult student for Italian teachers: if this population finds it difficult to discriminate between aggressiveness, hostility and hyperactivity, then it is not surprising that this last category gains salience and, maybe, over-representation in surveys.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Additional Information: | I.C. 5.79 |
| Subjects: | Education |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento formazione e apprendimento / Alta scuola pedagogica |
| Depositing User: | Loredana Addimando |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2016 11:37 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2023 11:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/7323 |
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