Abstract
M.Ed. (Educational Psychology)
Modern man I s need to contend with a rapidly changing world necessitates the creative and astute use of thinking skills so as to facilitate his adaptation to his environment, and his ability to control his own behaviour. The school has been given the responsibility to teach its scholars how to think. The tendency towards rationalisation has resulted in an increase in the pupil-teacher ratio and this exacerbates the learning problems experienced by the learning disabled child.
Though very little recognition has been given to the parents' influence on the development of their childrens' thinking, they arethe logical choice to assist the school in developing their childrens' complex thinking skills, The aim of this study is to
establish guidelines for an education programme directed at tutoring parents to assist in the facilitation of the problem solving ski 115 of their learning disabled senior primary school children, A study of the 1iterature regarding thinking, problem solving and parent education, brought to light principles that should be borne in mind when compiling a parent education programme. These principles have been transformed into a set of general and specific guidelines for an education programme for parents of senior primary school learning disabled children. General guidelines are theoretical principles that are relevant to education programmes for the parents of learning disabled children.