The psychological and social reasons of intellectual rigidity and methods of treatment it from the point of view of the secondary school teachers

Abstract

The aims of the study   are to acknowledge the following : The psychological and social reasons of intellectual rigidity  and methods of treatment it from the point of view secondary school teachers ,in the first karkh Education Directorate in the city of Baghdad for year (2019-2020). The research sample was (600) teachers amounted to  (300) male and (300) female. Accordingly, the researcher built a questionnaire to achieve the objectives of the current research ,where the apparent validity and reliability of the questionnaire were extracted by re-application where the reliability coefficient reached (86%)after using the Pearson equation. The Fisher equation was used to extract the result ,where the most prominent psychological reasons repeatedly for intellectual rigidity which are due to adherence to everything that supports private benefit and trying to prove one self .As for the most prominent social reasons ,the wrong family up bring and imitation of prominent figures in society. As for the most prominent methods of constructive and critical scientific thinking, these results in set of recommendations and proposals including avoiding extremism , respecting the other opinion and conducting studies aimed at comparing parents and children in intellectual rigidity and between intellectuals and non –educated people