ADJUSTMENT AND MALADJUSTMENT
Life is
a continuous process of adjustment. Every day we make countless adjustments,
most of them apparently insignificant and many of them carried out more or less
automatically, with no particular thought and often without awareness. In
adjusting to life situations, the individual is required to harmonize his
desires with reality. Lack of harmony between the individual and his
environment lead to disintegration of personality and subsequent maladjustment.
Education
aims to the development of a wholesome and well-adjusted personality of the
educant. Such a personality is characterized by the harmony between the needs
of the individual and demands of the environment. The school has a duty to
develop wholesome attitudes, values and habits in pupils and consolidate these
into effective life patterns which form the basis of wholesome personality. The
school cannot afford to ignore the pupil’s adjustment difficulties as these
will interfere even with the attainment of academic goals. So from an
individual as well as social points of view, teacher should shoulder
significant responsibilities for helping children into well adjusted and mentally
healthy individuals.
ADJUSTMENT
1. Meaning and Definition of Adjustment
Adjustment
is the process of getting along with one’s own self and with others. It is the process
by which a person varies his behaviour to produce a more harmonious
relationship between himself and his environment. It is the ability to
accommodate oneself to changing circumstances as a mark of maturity.
Nature of Adjustment
1. Adjustment is the process of need reduction.
2. Adjustment is an achievement.
3. It is a state of harmonious relationship between the
person and his environment.
4. Adjustment brings to happiness, efficiency, and some
degree of social feelings.
5. It depends on external and internal demands
6. Adjustment refers both to a process and to a state.
7. Adjustment involves psychological and physiological
adaptation.
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