Guide : Mrs. Karpagam S
Asst. Professor
Adi Sankara Training College
Kalady.
CASE STUDY BASED ON THE BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEM
INTRODUCTION
“By Education
I mean, an all round drawing out to the best in child and man – body, mind and
spirit”. These are the words of Gandhiji, our father of Nation. Education is a
process which draws out the best in man with aim of producing a well balanced
personality, culturally refined, emotionally stable, ethically sound, logically
correct, mentally alert, intellectually competent, technically advanced,
morally upright, physically strong, socially efficient and internationally
liberal.
“Case study marks the introduction
of evolutionary thought into the field of the human soul”. Child study is meat
the study of children by the methods of modern science. Children have doubtless
been studied ever since there first was a child upon earth, but it is only in
our own day that they have become the object of scientist research. The study
of human development, whether of the body as a whole or of individual organs,
pertains to embryology. The study of the child’s mind is a department of
psychology. Teachers, doctors and sanitarians all interested in the study of
children from their particular points of view.
The case study
helps to collect facts about children and to formulate them in such a way as to
makes them available for science and for the use of those who need them for
application to practical problems. For thousands of years school masters have
been aware that in every class there are children who are lazy, inattentive and
content to attempt to remedy these faults by the free application of the care.
The study of case again, has a very important bearing upon many sociological
and political questions. Teacher again are beginning to realize that the
methods by which they get up a subject may be very unsuitable for teaching that
subject to a child. I need we are coming to recognize that the primary aim in
education should be not instruction in subjects, but development of mind.
NEED AND SIGNIFICANT OF CASE STUDY
Academic
achievement is one of the aims of education. A child’s academic achievement is
highly improved by parent – child, teacher – child relationships. It is also
enforced by the nature and student’s socioeconomic status, attitudes
motivation, personality factors and intelligence which is indulged with the
parents. The parent – child relationship is a good key factor for a child to
have adjustment in environment and to perform well in academic also. The need
for undertaking case study is to replicate the relationship with the parents,
teachers and child how to enhances the
child’s adjustment mentally. The friendly motivation given to the child enables
him/her to empower concentration and boost them to explore in academics.
The education
capacity of the student is judged by his/her achievement in the school. The
academic performance in school subjects, will lead them to choose the future
couse of life. In the high school level itself the basic things will be known
by the students. This is an important stage not only for studying habits
influencing the academic achievements, but also to bear on the whole
personality of school students. The investigator would like to know, “is there
any relationship between parents behaviour on the child’s adjustments and
academic achievements of the school students? The knowledge of the relationship
between these variables under study would help the parents, teachers and
students to make the needed changes.
The results of
the case study will be useful to understand the fact, whether parent – child
relationship, teacher – child or environment has greater impact on the child’s
adjustment and academic outcome of the students. The findings can be utilised
in the field of education to develop remedial measures, favourable relationship
between the parent and child which in turn help in the high school students. As
a result healthier school community, society and the nation will be formed
PROBLEM OF CASE STUDY
Case study is
a report or a detailed study collected through efficient method. The scientific
mode of connection enriches the teacher to know the drawbacks in the child.
Through the case study we can refine the child. During my teaching practice at
Mar Augutine high school Thuravoor , I got an opportunity to come across
different types of students. There were 25 students in that class and a boy
mentiones special attention. His indifferent behaviour and carelessness in
studies make me to know about the child in detail. He did not write properly.
He always disturb the class and I met his class teacher and enquired about him.
I selected Minto P Babu as my child for case study.
OBJECTIVES OF CASE STUDY
- To find out the factors affect a child’s development.
- To learn what makes for a healthy and happy childhood and what makes unhappy.
- To help them to discover their own lives, prosperously.
- To chart the development of children in various time.
- To examine the progress and well being of children at crical periods from birth to adulthood.
- To establish the effects of early childhood experience on later life.
- To map dimensions of variations in child’s life.
- To obtain child’s view and opinion on their lives.
- To assist in policy formation and the provision of services for children and their families.
DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE
To know more
about the boy, I used certain methods and techniques. I started observe the
child inside and outside the classroom and details were collected through
observation, interviews, questionnaire, projective techniques, sociometry,
questionnaire, word completion test, sentence completion test, word association
test etc
SOCIOMETRY
It is a
technique of assessing the social relationship among members in a group through
the measurement of the frequency of acceptance or non acceptance between the
individuals who constitute the group. It undertakes to define and measure the
likes and dislikes of group members. It is developed by mereno and Jennings in
1946. In a class, the children are asked to select those with whom they would
like to play or work. Each child makes his choice, and from this data, teacher
can construct a social map which is
known as sociogram. The sociogram is a type of seating chart. It sketches the
pattern of rejection and attraction in the class by indicating which friend
each child would prefer to have in the next seat as a companion in class, on
the school bus, or as a partner in the next class meeting that is organized
sociogram will help the teacher to identify the stars, clique, mutuals and
isolates. Stars are those who are choosen by
many, cliques are those who are choosen exclusively by themselves,
mutuals are unit of two individuals choosen reciprocally and isolates are those who are choosen by nobody.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Questionnaire
is a device for securing answers to questions by using a form which the
respondent fills in himself. It contains a list of pre-planned and selected
questions about some aspect of individuals life, presented in a standard
scoring key. Questionnaire contains questions which cannot be obtained from
other sources. It should be attractive in appearances, neatly arranged in
categories to ensure easy and accurate response.
ANLYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
By closely
examining Minto P Babu I came to know that he likes to study, read and write
but he is lazy. He is a selfish boy. He does’nt think about his friends and
their feelings. He not have any friends in his class. He is little frustrated
and also the environment is not much similar to the part of school. His family
face a lot of financial crisis. The main reason of his lazyness is that he is
not friendly with others in the class.
REMEDIAL
MEASURES
I had given suggestion to minto and his teacher. If love and care
is given to him, he will be very good. I help him to mingle others with freely
and changed his seat to a student he likes very well. I talked to his friends
and told them to be friendly with them.
LIMITATIONS
OF THE STUDY
There are many limitations for the case study. The first thing is
there is not enough time to make a detailed study of the child. The second
thing is that as I am a teacher trainee, he is not willing to provide more
information. Because of these I am not able to collect information as much as
possible.
CONCLUTION
The case study is a helpful method to know about a particular
child. Both physical and mental problems can be identified early from the class
room. So we can find out good situations for the problem. The study aims to
rectify the problem of the child and make him to shine, brightening in future.
The case study is essential in every class as there are some students in every
class.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Psychological basis of education ; Dr. N. K Arjunan
- Principles and techniques of education; Sujith publications
- Basic ideas in education; Agarwal J. C
