RESEARCH ON THE FACTORS LEADING TO EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING
Keywords:
factors, early school leaving, research, questionnaires,Abstract
The consequences of early school leaving affect people throughout their entire lives
by increasing their risk of unemployment, poverty, and social exclusion, including
through reducing their children’s chances of succeeding at school. In the
specialized literature, there are several explanatory mechanisms for early school
leaving phenomenon, and the factors that influence it are distributed in different
orders or on different priority levels. In this paper, we present an analysis of the
factors leading to early leaving from vocational education and training, based on
two types of research, background research, and through questionnaires,
conducted within an Erasmus+ project, in six European countries. In spite of
different educational systems, the factors leading to early school leaving do not
vary that much from country to country. Some factors sometimes have almost
similar values and preferences, and sometimes they differ, less or more, even till
the situation they are opposite, from a participating country to another.
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