Does School Experience Kill Confidence? Chosen Aspects of Students’ Feelings and Beliefs about Themselves over a Number of Years of Education

Abstract

Stress and anxiety experienced at school is negatively correlated with school achievements and mental health. Experiencing stress and anxiety is common for young people of school age from all over the world. Previous experiences have signifi cant infl uence on children's self-effi cacy and their self-confi dence. Students' school experiences are the main subject of this text.Th is article presents results of longitudinal studies among children from primary school. In 2016 a questionnaire was distributed among children in 2ⁿd and 3rd grade (N=82). In 2019 the same survey was conducted among the same children in 4t and 5t grade (N=82). Aft er several years of education students declare higher levels of stress and anxiety and lower levels of self-confi dence and beliefs in their abilities in situations when they are evaluated at the board. Results of the research disclose a disquieting tendency in school experience.

Neoliberalism and Western Education crisis. Causes, consequences and opportunities for the change

“…This is a disquisition that was already identified by Freire in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2018), and has been explored by other authors related to critical pedagogy (ALLMAN, 2010;APPLE, 1999;MCLAREN, 2015). It is an evaluation of the needs of the labour market to the detriment of the liberating aspirations of Education (GLINKA, 2020). The relationship between students and teachers is mediated by students' integration into a competent economic system, for which Education becomes an instrument for professional and economic development, a mere preparation for employment (KEMMIS, 1998).…”