Academic engagement and providing optimal solutions during the outbreak of global epidemics: A qualitative study

Abstract

Today, one of the most profound issues in the classroom is engaging students with assignments, practices, and written study materials; an issue that, if not successful, has sometimes led to dropout or failure of students in all grades. Looking at the current situation (the spread of the Corona virus all over the world) and taking into account that virtual education has a special value during global epidemics and students generally pursue education at home, achieving students' academic engagement with materials of a lesson in a positive and constructive way seems necessary. Solving personality conflicts, improving the interaction between the person and the environment through research achievements in personality psychology, simultaneously addressing the roles of self-determination and attitude to electronic learning, controlling and applying an optimal level of academic excitement, raising cognitive ability, raising social status - economic, raising academic enthusiasm, raising expectations of success, strengthening the disciplinary atmosphere and optimizing the relationship between teacher and student, frequent presentation of targeted and short assignments are useful ways to achieve the desired level of academic engagement. Teachers, coaches, parents, administrators, counselors and all those who are in some way related to the issue of education should use all their power to engage the student in the desired way with school materials and subjects.

Keywords

• academic engagement
• providing solutions for academic engagement
• academic engagement during epidemics