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ATTITUDE OF DIFFERENT SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS’ REPRESENTATIVES TO CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 5 (27). P. 178-188

The article is devoted to the analysis of such social phenomenon as tolerance to children and adolescents with developmental disorders. It contains a fragment of research carried out by the authors during 2009–2017. Based on the analysis of the answers given by representatives of three socio-demographic groups (pupils in secondary schools, students of higher educational institutions, adults) to the author’s questionnaires their attitude to children with disabilities from four categories was studied: children with mental retardation, cerebral palsy, blind and visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing. Adult respondents express less tolerant attitude to children with disabilities, in comparison with students and schoolchildren: 45.9 % object to teaching their children together with a child with developmental problems, 41.2 % speak out for separate education, 33.9 % object to joint extracurricular activities. 82.5 % of students and 76.6 % of adults are not ready to provide voluntary, even temporary, assistance. A comparative analysis of interaction with them in various spheres and situations is described. In general, the studied groups are characterized by differences in the answers to the questions, suggesting and not suggesting personal involvement in the situation of interaction with such a child, more pronounced in the responses of adult respondents. The differences in the level of tolerance, as in different social situations of interaction and in relation to different categories of children with disabilities were obtained.

Keywords: tolerance, schoolchildren, students, adults, children with mental retardation, hard of hearing and deaf children, children with cerebral palsy, visually impaired and blind children

THE PROBLEMS OF POPULATION ASSESSMENT OF THE OFFENSES RISK AMONG PUPILS IN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 5 (27). P. 189-200

The article discusses the psychological causes of distortion of survey data on the prevalence of adolescent behavior associated with the risk of offenses. The conditions for the preparation and conduct of surveys that motivate or demotivate adolescent respondents to participate in the survey and provide relevant data are revealed. The empirical basis of the conclusions are the results of observing the behavior of respondents and their parents in the process of preparing for the survey and its conduct in 27 secondary schools. Account for the psychological needs of adolescents and their parents is considered as a key condition for obtaining valid data. The decreased willingness of adolescents to participate in surveys and provide reliable data is considered as the main cause of data distortion. According to the authors, the following factors lead to this. These are: pressure from the questionnaire organizers, lack of conditions for comfortable individual work with the questionnaire, violation of confidentiality, neglect of the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the examined adolescents groups when creating questionnaires and conducting a survey. Taking into account the psychological needs of adolescents when monitoring the risk of their offenses is considered an ethical imperative that requires strict observance. The authors point to the following needs of respondents for obtaining valid data. These are the needs for security, information and acknowledgment of the social value of their answers. The authors indicate possible ways of fulfilling the above needs during the survey and describe their motivating methods and methods for debriefing the possible negative consequences of the survey. The use of these techniques allowed the authors to increase the level of cooperation among adolescents in the survey process.

Keywords: crime prevention, monitoring, use of substances, Federal Law No. 120, adolescents, youth, respondent behavior