¹Chuyen T.H. Nguyen,²Dao T. Thai,³Trang T.T. Pham

¹Faculty of Primary Education, Thai Nguyen University of Education, 20 Luong Ngoc Quyen Street, Thai Nguyen city, Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam

²Faculty of Primary Education, Vinh University, Vietnam 182 Le Duan Street, Vinh city, Nghe An Province,Vietnam

³Yen Dương Primary school - Y Yen District- Nam Dinh province, Vietnam

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i8-16

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ABSTRACT

Nature and Society are compulsory subjects in the primary education curriculum in Vietnam. However, this subject has not really attracted the attention and investment of the lecturers and the learners are not really interested in it. This study explores the factors affecting the learning attitude towards the subject of Nature and Society of primary school students in Vietnam. An exploratory factor analysis method was used, with 19 questions designed and sent to primary school students through social channels and with the help of parents. Based on survey results from 101 students and data analyzed through SPSS software, the results of exploratory factor analysis identified four main factors affecting learning attitudes towards the subject of Nature and Society of Vietnamese Primary School Students: Factor 1 - Teacher's pedagogical skills (50.056%); factor 2 - Parental influence (8.799%), factor 3 - the influence of classmates (6,724%) and factor 4 - the belief and interest of learners (5,329%). The results of this study can become a source of reference for other researchers, and also suggest educators in proposing pedagogical measures in teaching subjects with high efficiency.

KEYWORDS:

attitude, learning, Natural and Social subject, student, elementary school

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