Educational Reasons for Early School Drop-Out
Educational Reasons for Early School Drop-Out

Summary/Abstract: Education is a high human value and a right that every person has to take advantage of. In today's technological society, differentiated as a knowledge based society, at the center of which the knowledgeable person is placed, a part of the young people leave the education l system prematurely. What provokes a person to make this fateful choice? Why, since the labor market needs highly qualified staff, a proportion of students chooses to leave school before they have mastered any professional skills? The reasons for dropping out of school are different. They can be differentiated generally as: family, social, economic and educational, personal reasons. The purpose of this article is to identify the educational reasons why students drop out of school. A questionnaire was developed in order to achieve the so set goal. The questionnaire was approbated with high school students. Research methods: content-analysis, survey, pertinent analysis of empirical data. The results indicate that educational reasons occupy a significant place among the reasons that the students give for dropping out of school. In order to reduce the influence of the educational reasons for dropping out of school, targeted training of the practitioners is needed. The teacher who is interested in the future development of his or her pupils needs to work preventively to keep students in the education system. Particularly devoted to this activity should be teachers who educate students mainly from minority groups in whose ethnic perceptions education is not of a significant value.

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