<p>This study is about inmates, who reflect upon their time in school, their experiences of school and how different things have influenced and affect them later in life. The aim with this study is to examine how different kinds of school related issues have affected the inmates in different ways. The aim is also to look at how school can spot in early years, children within the danger zone and provide for those children, so that they can be helped in different ways and so that they can be able to achieve different in life, not to end up becoming criminals later in life.</p><p>The main questions in this study are:</p><p>How did the chosen inmates experience their time in school?</p><p>Can you by looking at research tell that these persons already in their childhood were children within the danger zone?</p><p>What kind of school related issues could have contributed to a criminal lifestyle later in life?</p><p>The result of this study shows that all five have been children within the danger zone. In all five cases there have been school related issues that have affected those men. Issues such as; truancy, bullying, school defection, difficulties of concentrating and reading- and writing disorders. Issues which are to be seen as issues that could lead to a criminal lifestyle later in life.</p>

<p>Truancy is a problem in the Swedish schools today, just as well as in other European and other developed countries where educataion is gratuitous. Teachers all over Sweden go to classes with a clear and well-planned schedule for the day. But some are unable to do their work because of asent students. In this study I have chosen to focus on the perspective of the youths and the main question is: how do students discuss and think about truancy. During the study I have chosen a qualitative approach and have therefore done observation in various classes in a Swedish senior high school in a suburb outside Stockholm during twelve weeks. I have also done twelve interviews with the same number of students, six girls and six boys. The age ranges from 16 to 19 with two students from each grade. The result of the study is that some of the students are indiffirent when it comes to school. They just do not care about attending school all the lessons and all the days. Some of the students are absent when they feel they have lack of time in the prospect of a big examination. But the most astonishing statement from all the twelve students is that they state that their parents mean that the education is the student own responsibility.</p>

Truancy is a problem in the Swedish schools today, just as well as in other European and other developed countries where educataion is gratuitous. Teachers all over Sweden go to classes with a clear and well-planned schedule for the day. But some are unable to do their work because of asent students. In this study I have chosen to focus on the perspective of the youths and the main question is: how do students discuss and think about truancy. During the study I have chosen a qualitative approach and have therefore done observation in various classes in a Swedish senior high school in a suburb outside Stockholm during twelve weeks. I have also done twelve interviews with the same number of students, six girls and six boys. The age ranges from 16 to 19 with two students from each grade. The result of the study is that some of the students are indiffirent when it comes to school. They just do not care about attending school all the lessons and all the days. Some of the students are absent when they feel they have lack of time in the prospect of a big examination. But the most astonishing statement from all the twelve students is that they state that their parents mean that the education is the student own responsibility.

This study is about inmates, who reflect upon their time in school, their experiences of school and how different things have influenced and affect them later in life. The aim with this study is to examine how different kinds of school related issues have affected the inmates in different ways. The aim is also to look at how school can spot in early years, children within the danger zone and provide for those children, so that they can be helped in different ways and so that they can be able to achieve different in life, not to end up becoming criminals later in life. The main questions in this study are: How did the chosen inmates experience their time in school? Can you by looking at research tell that these persons already in their childhood were children within the danger zone? What kind of school related issues could have contributed to a criminal lifestyle later in life? The result of this study shows that all five have been children within the danger zone. In all five cases there have been school related issues that have affected those men. Issues such as; truancy, bullying, school defection, difficulties of concentrating and reading- and writing disorders. Issues which are to be seen as issues that could lead to a criminal lifestyle later in life.

The purpose of this study was to describe the school situation of adolescents who were subject to multisystemic therapy in Sweden, and also if a change could be measured after treatment. Factors that preceded the need for treament were also investigated. The sample consisted of 83 adolescents, boys (65 %) and girls (35 %), with an average age of 14 years. The method used was a secondary data analysis using pre-treatment- and post-treatment data collected from a 7-month follow-up conducted by Lunds Universitet. Results showed that the adolescents were low in school performance and high in truancy at pre-treatment. Truancy was the main reason for the need of treatment (50 %). The follow-up data showed tendencies of positive outcomes in the adolescent's school performance. Further research is needed to better detect weakness in adolescent's school performance and focus interventions to improve that area.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-01-10T10:49:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 mariaguiomacydasilvadeaquino.pdf: 1203435 bytes, checksum: 3ba4f5b22cad141a2df82b5daa1cb594 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-01-31T11:21:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 mariaguiomacydasilvadeaquino.pdf: 1203435 bytes, checksum: 3ba4f5b22cad141a2df82b5daa1cb594 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-31T11:21:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 mariaguiomacydasilvadeaquino.pdf: 1203435 bytes, checksum: 3ba4f5b22cad141a2df82b5daa1cb594 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / A presente dissertação foi desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). O objetivo do trabalho é compreender e analisar quais têm sido as formas de enfrentamento da evasão por parte da equipe gestora de duas escolas de Ensino Médio da Rede Estadual do Amazonas, do município de Itacoatiara. Sendo necessário investigarmos os elementos associados a essa conjuntura que culminam com a saída do aluno da escola e quais têm sido as ações e iniciativas tomadas pela equipe gestora em relação à precoce saída do aluno, sem que este conclua a última etapa da educação básica. Para tanto, o texto foi estruturado em três capítulos que garantem um melhor entendimento do processo de realização da pesquisa. No capítulo I, encontramos um detalhamento do estudo de caso, apresentamos as escolas partícipes do estudo de caso e relatamos suas características básicas como aspectos administrativos, pedagógicos e o seu cotidiano. Essa construção dos perfis das escolas se deu a partir de dados encontrados nos PPPs de cada uma dela, além de outros fornecidos pelas secretarias das escolas. Dando continuidade apresentamos, ainda, uma descrição da evasão escolar no Ensino Médio, no Brasil, no Amazonas e no município de Itacoatiara. Retratamos um breve perfil histórico do Ensino Médio com a intenção de enriquecer a compreensão do cenário de evasão e as possíveis causas deste. No capítulo II, apontamos possíveis causas da evasão escolar relacionadas a uma pesquisa realizada pelo setor de estatística da SEDUCAM e realizamos uma análise comparativa à luz de um referencial teórico para entender até que ponto o resultado da pesquisa supracitada pode ser aplicada à realidade das escolas pesquisadas. E, finalmente, no capítulo III, em razão da ausência de ações eficazes de combate à evasão escolar por parte das equipes gestoras das duas escolas pesquisadas, apresentamos algumas sugestões necessárias para que estas equipes gestoras tenham melhores resultados no que se refere à evasão em suas escolas. E para conclusão do trabalho apresentamos uma breve reflexão diante dos resultados apresentados na pesquisa e os desafios de superar um problema que, muitas vezes, tem como causa fatores que extrapolam os muros da escola. / This work was developed under the Professional Master in Management and Education Assessment (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policy and Federal University of Education Evaluation of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The objective is to understand and analyze what have been the avoidance of coping forms by the management team. It is necessary to investigate the elements associated with this situation culminating with the departure of school student and what have been the actions and initiatives taken by the management team regarding the early exit of the student without that it complete the last stage of basic education. For both the text was structured in three chapters which provide a better understanding of the research process. In chapter I found a detailed case study. We present the participants schools in the case study and present its basic features and aspects, administrative, pedagogical and their daily lives. This construction of the profiles of the schools took from those found in the PPP, and others provided by the school office. Continuing still find a description of truancy in high school, in Brazil, in the Amazon and Itacoatiara. Trazemos municipality even a brief historical profile of high school in order to understand the dropout scenario and the possible causes of it. In the second chapter. In Chapter II we point out possible causes of truancy indicated in a survey conducted by the statistical sector of SEDUC-AM and do a comparative analysis the light of a theoretical framework to understand the extent to which the results of this research can be applied to the reality of schools surveyed . Finally in chapter III because of the absence of effective action to combat truancy by the management team present some necessary actions for the management team has better results with regard to avoidance in their schools. And to complete the work we bring a brief reflection on the results presented in research and the challenges of overcoming a problem that often is caused by factors that go beyond the school walls.

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To get the pupil to return to school - A qualitative study of social workers and educators' experiences of their work with long-term school absence Previous research on long-term school absence has identified a number of risk and protection factors that affect pupils’ school absence. The purpose of the study was to investigate social workers’ and educators' perception of long-term invalid school absence and the extent to which known factors are used in an overall perspective in their work against and in their collaboration. The research questions concerned in what way professionals use known factors of influence in an overall perspective in the work against long-term invalid school absence and how social workers and educators cooperate with others in the work against long-term invalid school absence. The empirical material of the study was collected through two focus group interviews with social workers and teachers. System theory and organizational theory was used to analyze the results of the study. The result showed that a central part of the professional's work is to map the pupil's problems, which often consists of a complex problem that involves several factors. Collaboration with other professionals in working with the pupil is also described as necessary in order for efforts to be made against long-term invalid school absence. / Tidigare forskning om långvarig ogiltig skolfrånvaro har identifierat ett flertal risk- och skyddsfaktorer som påverkar elevens skolfrånvaro. Syftet var att studera socionomers och pedagogers uppfattning om och i vilken utsträckning kända påverkansfaktorer tillvaratas för att beakta ett helhetsperspektiv i arbetet med att motverka långvarig ogiltig skolfrånvaro samt vilka aspekter av samverkan som finns. Studien har haft två frågeställningar; på vilket sätt upplever professionella att kända påverkansfaktorer tas tillvara för att beakta ett helhetsperspektiv i arbetet med att motverka långvarig ogiltig skolfrånvaro samt vilka aspekter av samverkan socionomer och pedagoger som finns i arbetet med att motverka långvarig ogiltig skolfrånvaro. Materialet samlades in genom fokusgruppsintervjuer och systemteori och organisationsteori har använts för att analysera resultatet. Resultatet visade att en central del i de professionellas arbete är att kartlägga elevens problematik, vilket ofta består av en sammansatt problembild där flera faktorer spelar in. Även samverkan med andra parter som arbetar med eleven beskrivs som nödvändigt för att insatser mot långvarig ogiltig skolfrånvaro ska bli verksamma.

M.Ed. / Truancy, which according to Thompson and Rudolph (1992:513), is a deliberate absence from school without a valid reason, is a problem that probably dates back to the initial institution of large scale formal schooling. Although it may seem obvious that the reason for truancy is related to the fact that the truant prefers to be elsewhere, or that he finds the school an unpleasant place to be, the underlying reasons for truancy are more difficult to pinpoint. Research conducted in 1991 and 1992 in the United Kingdom (O'Keefe, 1994:48), and which included 150 schools, revealed that a significant number of pupils of compulsory school—going age become involved in truancy. Statistics reported by the research team themselves, based on a survey which involved questionnaires, suggested that if the results of their survey could be extrapolated to all schools, then a 95 per cent confidence interval for the mean truancy level in schools, is between 29.7 per cent and 32.4 per cent. About two thirds (68%), of all schools should have truancy levels between 22.7 per cent and 39.3 per cent, and 96 per cent of all schools should have levels between 14.4 per cent and 47.4 per cent. If these statistics could be used as a guide to estimate an average of truants per school, the enormity of the prevalence of truancy becomes evident. According to McWhirter and McWhirter (1993:58), truants tend to have what is termed a "dropouts perspective". They claim that dropouts inter alia tend to leave school for the following reasons: * a dislike for school, with the opinion that school is boring and not relevant to their needs * low academic achievement and poor grades * poverty, a desire to work full-time, and a need for money, and * a lack of belonging and a sense that nobody cares about them Some of these attributes might thus also obtain for many truants. Paterson (Wardaugh, 1990: 744), proposes two broad categories of truants, namely the "endangered" truant (also termed the delinquent or morally endangered truant), and the "fearful" truant (also termed the school phobic or abused truant). The "endangered" truant is prone to falling into trouble when absent from school, while the "fearful" truant wishes to go to school, but is afraid to do so. Truancy is also listed by Kapp (1990:119) as one of the behaviours manifested by juvenile delinquents along with various other delinquencies such as theft, running away from home, use and distribution of drugs, burglary, vandalism, assault and robbery, thus suggesting that truancy is associated with these misdemeanours. Healy (Tyerman, 1968:10), notes that truancy is the root of all these misbehaviours, and he described truancy as "the kindergarten of crime". In 1944 Burt (1944:455) already referred to truancy as "the first step on the downward stair to crime". According to Hersov and Berg (1980:67), truancy is a reliable predictor of difficulties in later life. They also report that school truancy significantly predicts four subsequent child events: being held back in elementary school, dropping out of high school,leaving the parental home before the age of 18, and marriage before the age of 18. Thus, it would appear that the prognosis for truants in terms of completing their schooling, securing stable employment and fulfilling responsible citizenship, without being a burden to their future spouses, families, communities and the state, is rather uncertain. Against this background, there can be little argument that the phenomenon of truancy is serious enough to warrant a counseling programme that will be effective in treating truants in the light of their problems in such a way that they will obtain a balanced perspective of the value of regular school attendance. In South Africa, the incidence of truancy, in the old racially biased provincial education schooling system of the House of Assembly (HOA), could be measured quite accurately, simply by consulting the class register over a period of time. Through investigating the circumstances surrounding the absenteeism the teacher could quite easily determine whether such circumstances met the criteria for classification of such absentees as truants. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the schools which were under the jurisdiction of the former Department of Education and Training (DET), of which the researcher was an employee for a number of years. Not only were records of attendance not kept properly in many instances to be able to determine how often a pupil was absent, but even if attendance records had been kept properly, the possible reasons for staying away from school, such as political violence, intimidation, and caring for younger siblings, do also not meet the criteria for classifying such an absentee as a truant. What is however also true, is that large numbers of former DET pupils could have exploited the prevailing situation at the time and could have stayed away from school for reasons that may well have qualified them as truants. Many schools served by the former House of Delegates (HOD), and the former House of Representatives (HOR), were, maybe, just as seriously affected by the political climate as the DET schools. The level of absenteeism related to unrest situations in the former HOD and HOR schools makes it just as difficult to distinguish between the "truants" and the "bona fide" absentees during those turbulent times. For this reason it was decided to restrict the scope of the present study to truants in schools which traditionally fell under the provincial education system of the former House of Assembly.

Förväntat kunskapsbidragDetta arbete belyser betydelsen av gymnasieskolans kunskapsuppdrag för de gymnasieelever som av olika anledningar befinner sig i en problematisk skolfrånvaro. Tidigare forskning kring skolfrånvaron och arbetet kring detta visar att skolans kunskapsuppdrag inte har varit i fokus. Arbetet belyser avsaknaden av arbetet kring elever som inte kommer till skolan. Syfte och frågeställningarSyftet med detta examensarbete är att visa på vilka sätt gymnasieskolans kunskapsuppdrag hanteras för gymnasieelever med problematisk skolfrånvaro genom följande frågeställningar:* På vilka sätt upplever fem elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro att skolan har varit behjälplig i deras fortsatta kunskapsutveckling mot kunskapskraven?* Hur ser de två rektorerna på skolan på skolans möjlighet att hjälpa elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro i deras fortsatta kunskapsutveckling mot målen?* På vilka sätt arbetar fyra lärare på skolorna med att fortsätta stötta elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro i deras kunskapsutveckling?TeoriI studien används systemteorin tillsammans med Bronfenbrenners ekologiska utvecklingsmodell för att synliggöra och förklara komplexiteten i situationer med problematisk skolfrånvaro i en gymnasieskola. I arbetet synliggörs även specialpedagogiska perspektiv i form av det kompensatoriska samt det relationella perspektivet.MetodDå syftet var att undersöka elevers och olika professioners tankar angående vilka sätt man hanterar gymnasieskolans kunskapsuppdrag för elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro, valdes en kvalitativ fenomenografisk intervjustudie på en gymnasieskola. Studien bygger på svar från 2 biträdande rektorer, 4 lärare och 6 elever. ResultatResultaten visar att frågan kring gymnasieskolans elevers problematiska frånvaro är komplex. Orsaker och konsekvenser går hand i hand. De vanligaste anledningarna till den problematiska skolfrånvaron är brist på stöd, brist på motivation och brist på relation. Sätten att arbeta med skolans kunskapsuppdrag för elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro skiljer sig inom samma skola. Det sammanlagda resultatet visar att gymnasieskolan brister i sitt kunskapsuppdrag mot elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro. Elever får mycket lite individuell hjälp eller ingen alls. Anledningen till detta är att det saknas riktlinjer kring arbetet med elever som inte kommer till skolan. Elevhälsans team av olika professioner utnyttjas inte till fullo i arbetet kring den problematiska skolfrånvaron. Specialpedagogiska implikationerAnalysen i denna fallstudie visar att den specialpedagogiska kompetensen är viktig i samarbetet med lärare och med skolans organisation. För att främja närvaro och arbeta kring arbetet med skolans kunskapsuppdrag för elever med problematisk skolfrånvaro krävs det didaktiska diskussioner såväl på gruppnivå som på organisationsnivå. Elevhälsans arbete kring svårigheten med skolnärvaron behöver ses över för att eleverna ska få ta del av undervisningen trots att de har en problematisk skolfrånvaro.