Self-efficacy of Professional Educators in Institutional Care for Children and Minors

Abstract

The aim of the study is to present the results of research that determine the extent to which professional educators working in educational care centres and children’s homes influence the behaviour of children in institutional care related to their school results, relationships with peers, leisure time and manifestations of risky behaviour. Professionals working in educational care centres are believed to affect the behaviour of children to a greater extent than educators in children’s homes. Educators in children’s homes believe that they affect the school performance and leisure time of children. Educators in educational care centres believe that they largely affect the risky behaviour of children and their relationships with peers. The level of self-efficacy of educators is dependent on education, age and length of their teaching experience. These differences can be observed only in educators in educational care centres.

Keywords

• self-efficacy
• institutional care
• educational care centre
• children's home