The story of the fourth form or how to cure frustration in the students of sixth-form colleges

Abstract

The author of the above mentioned study monitors the development of pathological relationships in the collective of a class at a sixth-form college. She analyzes the social background, the causes and symptoms of the „illness“; she gives an account of a long-term curative strategy used by educators and of a broad scale of concrete educational steps and measures.

Relationships, attitudes and values of the first- to fourth formers are studied in broad circumstances, on the background of the allarming symptoms of the current civilisation crisis.

Keywords

• global civilisation
• civilisation crisis
• values
• spirituality
• social climate
• crisis of the family
• authority crisis
• story of the fourth form