THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF PET RABBITS ON THE STUDY AND SCHOOL ATTITUDES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Kata Sipos, Karoly Bodnar

Abstract


Education needs serious changes. In one aspect, the students are not the same as their previous generation was, and on the other hand, the digital word what is around us, changed the understanding, and remembering processes. A new teacher aspect appears in a reversed socialization process, where the prestige is not necessarily an automatic entitlement. The research results of the authors show, that the students, who kept rabbits spent less time with computer games on their smart phones and other digital devices. They spent less time with their phones on social media sites, and spent more with their personal contacts, what can be hide huge possibilities, because, they spent more time in the real world. Keeping pet rabbits seems good for improve their communication capability, furthermore it helps to expand their knowledge of biology.


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pet rabbit; education; digitalization; attitudes; animal assisted education

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