Learning disorders and their family correlations

Abstract

This essay aims to discuss family influence on learning processes, pointing out the importance of family alterity in developing individuals who can be recognized as self-thinkers and, consequently, as individuals with healthy learning processes. Family is presented as the starting point for children to develop their own learning processes, showing that different family teaching ways are highly related to children’s learning processes. We describe predominant properties of families that facilitate learning processes and characteristics of families that make learning difficult for their members. In conclusion, we affirm the necessity of Psychopedagogy to broadly discuss family interaction ways and the possibilities of interventions to retrieve the recognition of children’s self-thoughts and their will for knowledge, as well as that of their family members.