Hi guys!
Today we are
going to talk about homework, a topic that could affect negatively the health
of children; they could impede children's physical and psychological welfare.
“In our country,
since the age of 11, there are a high percentage of children (25%) who feel overwhelmed
by the excess of exercises they have to do at home”.(Bailén y Polo, 2016). With these evidences, we can observe that
afternoons and weekends consist on being at home, studying and doing homework.
In this way, they haven´t got any free time to carry out playful and creative games,
or to practice extracurricular activities, like some sports, which are essential
in the physical and mental children’s development. Everything they could live
in these activities is positive: the interaction with their peer group, with a
team, the experience of having a coach (who becomes an important figure in
their lives), etc.
In addition, homework
affects the harmony of the home; the relationship between children and parents could
become irritable. Parents are working during the day and when they arrive at
home, their children are doing their homework. They haven´t got enough time to
interact between them; they need to talk about how the day has gone and carry
out activities together.
However, there are
authors who are in favor of the assignment, and they consider that homework, if
they are well programmed, makes children more responsible, and that they allow
a review of the contents, which children have previously learnt in the school. (De toro, 2014)
Therefore, it would be a
good idea to reduce the amount of homework or to leave free periods, in order
to motivate children, and giving them time to enjoy with their families,
interact with their friends… With this method, we could achieve that students
arrive each day with enthusiasm to class, taking advantage of the hours they
spend at school.
Finally, we think that
is important to achieve that children have a balanced life. That is, they have
to be responsible to do their tasks, and at the same time they need free time
to enjoy with their friends and their family.
In our own experience,
we remember that we arrived so tired at our home, and we had to do a lot of
homework, and even we had to do some copies because of we were very noisy or
something like that. In this way there were a lot of things we could not do:
play with our friends, visit our grandparents, watch films with our family…
On several occasions, we
did not know how to do our tasks, perhaps because teachers didn’t explain what
we had to do, they only told us that it was compulsory to do the homework, and
if we did not do it, we had a negative, or maybe two…
We remembered that if we did not
finish the tasks or activities that the teacher had ordered the day before, we
stayed at breaks in the classroom finishing them, taking away the time that we
had to enjoy with our friends. This action made us hate our homework more. Sometimes,
we felt that the teachers’ worry was if we had done the activities, and no if
we had understood it.
References:
Bailén, E; Polo, I. (2016). Deberes escolares/school
homework: the reflection of an educational systmen. “El reflejo de un sistema educativo. Avances en
supervisión educativa”, (25), 36.
De toro, I. (2014).
Deberes de calidad Vs deberes de cantidad. Universidad Internacional de la
Rioja, 53. Extraído de: http://reunir.unir.net/handle/123456789/2589
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