MULTI DIMENSIONAL ATTITUDE OF PARENTS AND LEARINING ORIENTATION OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Mr. S.Kalimuthu; Dr.AR.Saravanakumar

Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2018

MULTI DIMENSIONAL ATTITUDE OF PARENTS AND LEARINING ORIENTATION OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Mr. S. Kalimuthu, Dr. Ar. Saravanakumar

Abstract :

Parents’ attitudes like support, pressure and anxiety have a great impact on decisions that have implications for the future, such as choice of career and Parents’ pressure concerning career. There are obvious forms of pressure like parents’ holding financial strings over a child’s head while expecting them to follow a specific career path and there are mere subtle forms of pressure as well such as discouraging a child from taking a certain career direction instead of listening to what they want. Learning Orientation of Individuals that are highly predisposed towards learning oriented goals (i.e., are highly learning goal oriented) are concerned with increasing their competence and mastering whatever they are dealing with at that time. Since they are focused on learning and mastering certain skills, these individuals are likely to evaluate their performance relative to their own previous students achievements, and measure success in terms of personal progress. In educational settings student teachers and parents all are most responsible for the success of children education. However parents attitude is playing a major role for strengthening the students with self confidence and motivation towards a academic success. In this aspect, the parents are to change their attitude with positive manner while handling their children in their academic activities which help them to have positive attitude towards their academic streams. It is no doubt that learning orientation of the students depends upon the attitude of their parents. Because of the parents is to be considered as a Key for motivating their children towards the betterment of academic success. In this light of the above, there is a positive relationship between parents’ attitude and learning