SCHOOL DROPOUT IN VASLUI COUNTY – CAUSES, RISK SITUATIONS
SCHOOL DROPOUT IN VASLUI COUNTY – CAUSES, RISK SITUATIONS

Author(s): Sorin Mirel Ciolca
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Discobolul Publishing House
Keywords: school dropout; students; social exclusion; risk factors; disadvantaged area;
Summary/Abstract: Our country is facing serious problems related to school dropout and social exclusion, especially in rural areas. In some Romanian counties, these aspects have reached a worrying level, being necessary to take urgent measures, carry out useful activities and develop an action plan for social and educational integration. Vaslui is a disadvantaged county mainly in rural areas, where school dropout, difficulty in accessing education and social exclusion are alarming, being a case of extreme poverty, in last place in the European Union. What are the determining causes of this reality and the risk situations faced by people in this county? are essential questions of this research. Poverty, lack of jobs and ensuring a decent family living determine massive departures to work abroad, which negatively influences the education of children, who do not attend mandatory courses to complete eight grades. Due to real causes, these children are guided towards other existential priorities that contribute to dropping out of school for household activities, marriage at the age of 13-14, going abroad to their parents, etc. This ascertaining research was carried out over 6 months and used documentation, survey (conversation), statistical and mathematical and graphical methods. The research included a significant number of middle-school students (grades 5-8) from urban and rural areas in Vaslui County. The research highlights the reality of school dropout in a poor area of our country, delimiting its causes and risk situations in order to find out viable solutions to reduce in the future this extremely important social phenomenon."

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