MODELLING PREVENTION OF PERSONAL HELPLESSNESS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Derzyan Vladislava Evgenievna

Modern children tend to show personal helplessness, which requires modelling its prevention in primary schools, as the research aim states. To achieve this aim, the author explores the concept of personal helplessness, which is based on the learned helplessness phenomenon; defines the role of the school system to develop students’ personal helplessness; highlights factors to determine personal helplessness in the learning environment: the regulated assessment system, pedagogical impact (the teacher-student relations), and social interaction with a group (class). All these factors are involved in preventing helplessness, which results in building a four-block model of preventing personal helplessness in the learning environment of primary schools. The target block includes the objective, approaches, and tasks to increase the level of primary school students’ independence (subjectivity); the cognitive, motivational, emotional, and volitional components constitute the content block; the technological block involves the programme to prevent primary school students’ personal helplessness “The Independent ‘I’”; there is a high, average, or low level of each component of the personal helplessness phenomenon in the analytical and reflexive block.

Keywords:learned helplessness, personal helplessness, school education, primary school students, prevention