School Drop Out and Self-concept

1. Issues on School
Drop Out and
Access to Higher
Education

2. Main Factors to Significance Drop Out
The Psychological Dimensions of
Learning

3. Categories
of Learning
1
• Knowledge :
Facts, Concepts,
Ideas
….
The Psychological
Dimension of Learning

4. Categorie
s of
Learning
2
• Skills: Physical, social,
verbal, mathematical,
scientific…
….
The Psychological
Dimension of Learning
Physical, social, verbal, counting,
drawing, mathematical, scientific…etc
Skills can be observed…can be learned
from direct instruction, hands-on
experiences …improved with practices

5. The
Psychological
Dimension of
Learnig
• Dispositions:
habits of mind or
tendencies, interest,
curiosity, creativity…
Categories
of Learning
3
There is a significant difference between having reading skills
and having the disposition to be a reader that loves
knowledge.
"Let's see how much we can find out about something," rather
than, "I want to see how well you can do,"

6. The
Psychological
Dimension of
Learnig
• Feelings:
subjective
emotional states,
many of which are
innate
Categories
of Learning
4
• Feelings of competence, belonging, and
security… the self-concept (the set of attributes,
abilities, attitudes, and values, that an individual believes defines
who she or he is)
Feelings about school, teachers, knowledge,
learning…
FEELINGS ARE LEARNT…

7. The Psychological Dimension of Learning:
Happiness in Education
“The basic conditions for reaching happiness
are psychological conditions and factors.
Education: training the soul, cleansing it,
teaching it, making it profit from general and
experiences are centered on the human’s will
and his ability to raise his inclinations… so
as to attain the degree of happiness
appropriate for him”
(Ibn Maskawayh (932-1030 A.D) “The Pursuit of
Happiness”)