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Published on: September 11, 2021
Malaysian adolescent students' needs for enhancing thinking skills, counteracting risk factors and demonstrating
Seffetullah Kuldas1, Shahabuddin Hashim1, Hairul Nizam Ismail1
1School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia , 11800 Penang , Malaysia.
Abstract:
The adolescence period of life comes along with changes and challenges in terms of physical and cognitive development. In this hectic period, many adolescents may suffer more from various risk factors such as low socioeconomic status, substance abuse, sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. Findings indicate that such disadvantaged backgrounds of Malaysian adolescent students lead to failure or underachievement in their academic performance. This narrative review scrutinises how some of these students are able to demonstrate academic resilience, which is satisfactory performance in cognitive or academic tasks in spite of their disadvantaged backgrounds. The review stresses the need for developing a caregiving relationship model for at-risk adolescent students in Malaysia. Such a model would allow educators to meet the students' needs for enhancing thinking skills, counteracting risk factors and demonstrating academic resilience.
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