Learning difficulties in students of the 3rd year of a public school in the state of Alagoas, Brazil: A vision of psychoeducation

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Marizete, Batoca Silva, Ernestina, Duarte, João, Rosário Cabral, Lídia, Bica, I.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/5342
• topic: Learning; Learning difficulties; Family; Education

This article seeks to analyze learning difficulties in students of the third year of schooling and to relate some sociodemographic, family and school factors that contribute to failure rates in elementary education in a school in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. A quantitative, exploratory-descriptive study was carried out on a sample of 178 students from a public school. The results indicate that one third of the students live with only one parent and the same percentage say that the family environment is bad or very bad. More than half of the parents (53.4%) do not help their children in studies or homework and 41.6% of the parents do not have education. With our study we found students with high failure rates as 26.4% have already failed and 42.6% of these have failed twice and 36.2% have failed 3 or more times. Educators should reflect on these rates and on the influence the family has on children’s learning and take appropriate action as poorly structured, uneducated, and uninvolved families are influenced by student failure.