The Hypothetical Study on the Treatment for Children Exhibiting General Malaise（1st）
―Process of Treatment by Classroom-Teachers which Encourage Children to Continue at School―
2012 Volume 54 Issue 1 Pages 16-26
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2012 Volume 54 Issue 1 Pages 16-26
The present report proposes the hypothesis to explain how classroom teachers at elementary schools decide if they permit children who have general malaise to visit school health offices. We interviewed 18 classroom teachers about their treatment for children who have general malaise, and analyzed the data employing the modified grounded theory.
As a result, the following four hypotheses are generated:
1．Classroom teachers target to make children who have general malaise continue their studies in their classrooms. But in order to achieve this target, classroom teachers have to feel confident about mutual understanding between classroom teachers and children who have general malaise.
2．Until feeling confident about mutual understanding, classroom teachers could not identify if the reason why the children feel malaise is illness or not. And classroom teachers fear own fault that they make the children feel malaise. So classroom teachers let the children go to visit school health offices.
3．Classroom teachers expect yogo teachers to help the children recover from the condition, let the children get back classroom, and to help the teachers know about perspective of understanding the children. With the help of yogo teachers, classroom teachers attempt to understand the deep feelings of the children. So classroom teachers become confident that mutual understanding between classroom teachers and children who have general malaise does exist.
4．As a result, classroom teachers do not let the children go to visit school health offices and let them hang in their classrooms.
