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Attitudes help to determine what a learner perceives and how he perceives it. The learner
may have acquired a positive or a negative attitude towards, A particular teacher, Subject or
• School in general. The acquired attitude affects school life:
Learning and adjustment.
It goes without saying that positive attitudes towards the teacher and school work
leads to success and healthy adjustment to school whereas negative attitudes make
the learner desist and dislike school.
• When the learner desists and dislikes school his energies and interests are
channeled elsewhere.
• This learner will fight all attempts to make him learn. He will perceive the
learning task as unpleasant and useless. The learners’ attitudes towards self are
also very important.
There are those learners who have positive attitudes towards themselves.
• They become self-confident and they approach learning tasks confidently. This
makes them successful. Success is reinforcing and satisfying and helps to
maintain the positive attitude towards self and school.
On the other hand the learner who holds a negative attitude towards self loses
confidence and consequently this leads to failure.
• In turn failure leads to disorganization and disorientation.
• The failing pupil will result to the use of defensive mechanisms for example
blame his failure on the teacher, who he may accuse of being bad.
• Biased and
• Unfair or
• Even incompetent.
• The negative attitudes block future learning, which results in repeated failure.
Repeated failure produce strong feelings of insecurity and inferiority, which
eventually affect adjustment to school.
NatalieR answered the question on February 10, 2022 at 13:54
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