โรงเรียนสอน "To be Nice"
เอามาจาก Sunday Telegraph, Education Correspondent UK
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Children to be given classes on how to be "nice"
By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent
(Filed: 06/03/2005)
Primary School children are to be taught how to make friends, resolve squabbles and "manage their anger" in a $10 million scheme aimed at improving their social skills.
Head teachers have been told by the Department of Education that they can no longer assume that the development of social and emotional skills is the responsibility of parents. Children will be given lessons on how to express feelings such as jealousy and regret and be encouraged to forgive and compliment classmates.
"Research is bringing home the wide extent of various types of neglect and abuse," says the guidance to heads.
"This is being exacerbated by the breakdown of extended family and communities, which reduces support for the nuclear family, and the higher rates of divorce and subsequent one-parent families.
"This has led to a shake-up of the belief that we can leave children"s emotional and social development to parents. So schools have to provide the emotional and social guidance that some pupils currently lack."
As part of the programme, pupils will have 30-minute assemblies on six themes, followed by "dedicated sessions", as well as discussions in other curriculum areas.
Hundreds of schools in 25 local authorities have been piloting the classes. Next month the programme will be extended to the 20,000 primaries in England.
In one session, children are encouraged to talk about their emotions and play a quiz called "Guess what I am feeling?" They design an "emotional barometer" to rate the strength of their feelings.
In another, children build a "good friend wall" with bricks on which they write qualities of friendship. They are also encouraged to pass round a cuddly toy to stroke to help them understand the "nice" feeling they have when receiving a compliment.
Kevan Collins, the Government"s national primary strategy director, said the project was aimed at improving learning and behaviour, highlighted by inspectors last week as a growing problem in secondary schools.
"Many of these things are taught by parents, and we want to build on that," he said. "Other children might not have the background where these are developed sufficiently. We have more targeted work for those who need it."
Some heads expressed doubts about the scheme. David Hart, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: "Once again, schools are being used to make good the deficiencies of parents. I think there"s a distinct danger that we are drifting more and more into the nanny state.
"Schools are quite capable of identifying children that might have a particular problem because of their background. Being expected to deliver a whole programme to all children is excessively bureaucratic and will use up valuable time in primary timetables that could be used to better effect."
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ดูเหมือนว่า Play Nice จะเป็นปัญหา epidemic ระดับโลก หน่วยครอบครัวในอังกฤษมีความแตกแยกขนาดเด็กจะขาดการอบรมการอยู่ร่วมกันกับผู้อื่นอย่าง civilized ไปแล้ว รากของปัญหาเริ่มมองเห็นตั้งแต่ประมาณเกือบสิบปีแล้ว จากสถิติที่มี single mother และ teenage mother จน.มากที่สุดในยุโรป ครอบครัวที่ไม่สามารถจะอบรมสั่งสอนลูกได้อย่างเต็มที่ กฏหมายที่บีบไม่ให้ครูสามารถทำโทษนักเรียน พักการเรียน หรือไล่ออกจากโรงเรียนไม่ว่าจะทำผิดอะไรก็ตาม ทำให้การเลี้ยงดูอบรมเด็กรุ่นใหม่ยากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ
และอย่างที่มีคนตั้งข้อสังเกตไว้ตอนท้ายสุด เมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่ประเทศต้องให้รัฐบาลออกกฏหมายควบคุมมาบอกว่าเลี้ยงลูกอย่างไรดี นั่นแปลง่ายๆว่าโครงสร้างของสังคมระดับพื้นฐานใช้ไม่ได้อีกต่อไป ต้องให้นักการเมืองมากำหนด "มาตรฐาน" การเลี้ยงดูลูกของคนในประเทศ
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