Interest based learning and its impact upon students, schools and society

Garg Juhi* and Anand Sakshita

The present case study intends to find out the ratio at which the school complies the ‘Interest Based Learning’ (IBL) for their students in choosing the stream of their interest and preference; impact of compliance of interest based learning on an individual; impact of compliance of interest based learning on the school as an agency of knowledge and career growth and; impact of compliance of interest based learning on the society as a beneficiary.

The objectives are attainted by collecting the data from 160 students of class XI and XII from Science and Commerce streams. A total sample of 80 students who had chosen/registered commerce stream and 80 students who had chosen/registered science stream were taken. Thurstone Interest Schedule scale was administered to measure the above.

The case identified the ratio at which the school complies the ‘Interest Based Learning’ for their students in choosing the stream of their interest and preference which was 3:1 for science stream and 5:1 in commerce stream. The study also revealed the impact of compliance of Interest based learning on the school as an agency of knowledge and career growth. It was noted that school gives freedom to the students in making choices regarding stream selection. It was found that if the individual student is in loss, school automatically will be a losing end and if the two primary units of the society are suffering, the society on the whole would not gain anything.

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Taboo, Hijack or Fatalism as Culturally Learned Qualities of Bonds by Families caring for Males and Females with Intellectual Disabilities at Homes: Secondary Data Analysis

Borowska-Beszta Beata

The article is a secondary qualitative data analysis report from cultural perspective on 3 generated in emic perspective categories called: qualities of bonds learned, supported and transmitted by Polish families having adults with intellectual disabilities and conditions that need home-based care for their entire lives. Performed secondary data analysis is grounded in the content of existing 3 Polish qualitative datasets from primary research undertaken in years 2005 to 2014.

Preliminary results of secondary analysis have indicated the existence of various culturally learned qualities of bonds in Polish families caring for adults (males and females) with intellectual disabilities as well as with multiple developmental disabilities. I have analyzed 3 main patterns of culturally learned qualities of family bonds as: taboo, hijack and fatalism.

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Motherhood in Females with Intellectual Disability: Review of Selected Polish Educational Research

Agnieszka Karpińska

The purpose of this text is to analyse the issue of maternity of women with intellectual disabilities. Many disabled women with to perform role of mother. Feelings and desires are no stranger to females with disabilities.

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Relation between the Internet and Social and School Functioning of Children and Adolescents: A Review

Mateusz Smieszek

This paper depicts a review of research into the different views on the relations between the Internet activity of children and adolescents and their social and school functioning. The paper also presents the research of educationists, psychologists and sociologists who studied the subject. This paper focuses on the types of threats and dangers which are perceived in the virtual world and which can have a negative influence on young people’s lives.

The paper also describes examples of research providing information regarding the consequences of the active use of the Internet and their influence on the development of social competences in adolescents and children.

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