How dropouts experience schooling
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1971
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Bristowe, Elizabeth Anne
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Abstract
In order to determine the constituents of the experience of dropping out of school, a phenomenological analysis was made of the responses of twenty high school dropouts to a questionnaire regarding their experience of school before deciding to leave.
Results of the present study support existing literature and research which suggest that attention be directed towards school internal factors; students expressed a need for autonomy, feelings of futility and boredom, conflict with teachers and administration, disillusionment with intellectual dishonesty, and concern that school was an inappropriate place for personal growth. Little or no concern was expressed over school external factors such as finding work or getting married.