Problem Behavior Function of Social-Emotional Climate?

Abstract

We suggest one definition of problem behavior. We sketch the need for an appropriate climate for helping learners to change their behavior, attitudes, and perceptions. We indicate how a learning climate in the home, school, or elsewhere can be nurtured and assessed. We seek to describe the psychological conditions that tend to enhance learning. We specify helping conceptions and strategies that educators may employ in many settings. We spell out some specific strategies that seem to increase the probabilities of learning and the role that participation and choice by learners can play in enhancing learning. Finally, we touch on the issue of reeducation of learners, develop the thesis that our positive or negative views of learners determine how we interact with them, briefly remind ourselves of the overarching aims of education, and set out a different view of motivation and its sources.