<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper deals with class teachers’ thinking and reasoning processes and the possibilities of influencing teachers’ ability to create a favourable classroom social climate. This paper describes personal and social education as one of the means and methods of such influencing. The results of the research carried out indicate that teachers have a very high opinion regarding their ability to create a favourable classroom social climate. The issues of personal and social education in the work of a class teacher are the topic of the project KEGA 002DTI-4/2013 being solved by a team of professionals at Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom.</p></abstract>

The paper deals with class teachers’ thinking and reasoning processes and the possibilities of influencing teachers’ ability to create a favourable classroom social climate. This paper describes personal and social education as one of the means and methods of such influencing. The results of the research carried out indicate that teachers have a very high opinion regarding their ability to create a favourable classroom social climate. The issues of personal and social education in the work of a class teacher are the topic of the project KEGA 002DTI-4/2013 being solved by a team of professionals at Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom.

Class Teachers – Their Thinking and Reasoning in the Context of Creating a Favourable Classroom Social Climate by Means of the Methods of Personal and Social Education

Dubnica Institute of Technology in Dubnica nad Váhom, Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia

Acta Educationis Generalis

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The paper deals with class teachers’ thinking and reasoning processes and the possibilities of influencing teachers’ ability to create a favourable classroom...

Class Teachers – Their Thinking and Reasoning in the Context of Creating a Favourable Classroom Social Climate by Means of the Methods of Personal and Social Education

Published Online: May 28, 2016

Page range: 27 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2016-0004

Keywords
class teacher, personal and social education, favourable classroom social climate, perceived self-efficacy

© 2016 Zuzana Geršicová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Class Teachers – Their Thinking and Reasoning in the Context of Creating a Favourable Classroom Social Climate by Means of the Methods of Personal and Social Education

Published Online: May 28, 2016

Page range: 27 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2016-0004

Keywordsclass teacher, personal and social education, favourable classroom social climate, perceived self-efficacy

© 2016 Zuzana Geršicová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
class teacher, personal and social education, favourable classroom social climate, perceived self-efficacy