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Download full textSpence, Ian; Stan-Spence, Aileen – 1990
Learned helplessness is an insidious condition involving undeveloped executive functioning, lack of persistence, and an undeveloped sense of connecting new words or concepts into a web of meanings. Remedial teaching in most small-group, diagnostic/prescriptive settings encourages continued learned helplessness because students are dependent on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Helplessness
