Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

Database of Publications

From this section it is possible to access to a review of publications, available at national level in the five European countries involved, on the topics related to early school leaving issues. The publications include: literature, reports, data, studies etc. Each selected publication has been reviewed and presented according to a common format. The reviews of the selected publications are organized in the searchable database below. Please notice that the publications are available only in the original languages, while the reviews were made in English and in the national languages.

List of Publications available

• 2004 ANNUAL SCHOOL LEAVERS’ SURVEY of 2002/2003 LEAVERS

  Author: Shirley Gorby, Selina McCoy and Dorothy Watson

• A Community Response – Moving Forward Step by Step

  Author: Elaine Slattery

• A Holistic Approach to early School Leaving and School Retention in Blanchardstown: Current Issues and Future Steps for Services and Schools

  Author: Dr. Paul Downes, Dr. Catherine Maunsell & Jo-Hanna Ivers

• A review of School Based Measures aimed at Addressing Educational Disadvantage

  Author: Susan Weir and Peter Archer

• A Study of Sexual Health Issues, Attitudes and Behaviours: The Views of Early School Leavers

  Author: Paula Mayock and Tina Byrne

• Aiming High: Raising the Achievement of Gypsy Traveller Pupils - July 2003

  Author: Department for Education and Skills

• Attendance in Secondary Schools September 2007

  Author: Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education)

• Barriers to the Realisation of Children’s Rights in Ireland

  Author: Ursula Kilkelly

• BEYOND EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE

  Author: Edited by Paul Downes and Louise Gilligan

• Blackpool 'Missing Children' Research Project

  Author: Karen Broadhurst and Professor Corinne May-Chahal

• Child Poverty in Ireland – An Overview

  Author: Jo Harding of the End Child Poverty Coalition and Maria Corbett of the Children's Rights Alliance.

• Children Missing Education: Experiences of Implementing the DfES Guidelines - September 2006

  Author: Steve Griggs, Ros Payne and Sunita Bhabra - Creative Research

• Choosing to Learn - Improving participation after compulsory education - December 2005

  Author: Simone Delorenzi and Peter Robinson

• Common Assessment Framework

  Author: UK Government - Every Child Matters

• DEIS An Action Plan for Social Inclusion

  Author: Department of Education and Science

• Designing special vocational training courses for school dropouts: the case of Greece

  Author: Stamatis Paleocrassas, Panayiotis Rousseas, Vassilia Vretakou

• Developing A European Gateway For Youth Social Inclusion Programmes

  Author: Dermot Stokes

• Developing a Strategy for Crisis Intervention

  Author: Julie Brown

• Draft External Support & Co-operation Module

  Author: Art Ó Súilleabháin

• Drop Outs or Early School Leavers: More Than a Difference in Verbiage?

  Author: Alana James.

• Dropping Out: A Study of Early Leavers from Higher Education - 2003

  Author: Rhys Davies and Peter Elias

• Dublin 17 Early School Leaver Initiative – Progress Report 1999-2001

  Author: Northside Partnership

• Early School Leavers - Forum Report 24

  Author: The National Economic and Social Forum

• Early School Leavers: Understanding the Lived Reality of Student Disengagement from Secondary School

  Author: Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, Special Education Branch

• Educational Disadvantage

  Author: Boldt, S. and Devine, B

• Educational Disadvantage in Ireland

  Author: Kieran McKeown & Madeline Clarke

• Experiences and Attitudes of Early School - A Survey of Early School Leavers in Ballymun & Mayo

  Author: Kieran McKeown & Grace Fitzgerald

• Extended Services: Partnership Working in Action

  Author: N/A

• Guidelines on identifying Young People at Risk of Early School Leavin

  Author: Department of Education and Science, The School Completion Programme

• Identifying good practise in relation to the support needs of students in centres for education and training, with reference also to the needs of staff and support service practitioners

  Author: Mary Gordon

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  Author: Ι. ΠΥΡΓΙΩΤΑΚΗΣ

• Improving Attendance and Behaviour in Secondary Schools

  Author: Ofsted - (Office for Standards in Education)

• Improving Participation at 17+. Published in 2005

  Author: Peter Davies and Tamantha Webster

• Improving the Outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Pupils

  Author: Anne Wilkin, Chris Derrington and Brian Foster

• In Trouble From Day One

  Author: Ted Fleming and Anne Gallagher

• Inclusion Trust

  Author: Notschool.net

• Invisible Children

  Author: Chris Skidmore, Nick Cuff, Charlotte Leslie

• Learner Retention and Achievement - Published in 2006

  Author: Peter Davies for the Learning and Skills Development Agency

• Listening to the Early Leavers

  Author: Diarmuid Leonard

• Listening to the Early Leavers - June 1998

  Author: Diarmuid Leonard but based on an article by Leonard and Walsh (1998) and on a research study by Walsh (1996)

• Measure Study of Early School Leavers - Youthreach and Travellers Measure 11B of the EHRDOP Implemented by the Department of Education and Science

  Author: WRC Social and Economic Consultants

• Multiple Intelligencies

  Author: Dr Thomas Armstrong

• National Dropout Prevention Center/Network

  Author: N/A

• One City, Two Tiers: A Theological Reflection on Life in a Divided Society

  Author: Cherry Orchard Faith and Justice Group

• Parent Support Adviser Project - Resource Kit 1

  Author: Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA)

• Parenting Contracts

  Author: N/A

• Parents, Carers and Schools July 2007

  Author: Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education)

• Participation by 17 year olds - July 2003

  Author: Learning and Skills Development Agency

• Participation in Education, Training and Employment by 16-18 year Olds in England June 2008

  Author: N/A

• Pathways Effective Support for Early School Leavers

  Author: Andy Battell

• Raising Expectations: staying in education and training post 16 - March 2007

  Author: Department for Education and Skills

• Roma and Travellers in Public Education

  Author: Máirín Kenny

• School Attendance web site

  Author: Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF)

• School Matters - Teenage Dropouts - NEETS - June 2008

  Author: Teachers.tv

• Squaring the Circle

  Author: Ted Fleming and Mark Murphy

• Targeted Youth Support - delivery toolkit

  Author: Department for Children, Schools and Families

• Targeted Youth Support - Integrated support for vulnerable young people

  Author: Department for Children, Schools and Families

• The Dynamics of Local Economies and Deprived Neighbourhoods

  Author: Professor David North and Professor Stephen Syrett, Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development and Research, Middlesex University

• The Invisible Students

  Author: Sinéad Riordan

• The Reflections of Early Leavers and Second Year Participants on the Education Maintenance Allowance Scheme. A qualitative study. April 2003

  Author: Tim Knight and Clarissa White National Centre for Social Research

• Traveller Education Strategy Submission

  Author: Dermot Stokes, National Co-ordinator YOUTHREACH, Department of Education and Science

• Worklessness in Deprived Neighbourhoods: A Review of Evidence

  Author: Policy Research Institute (PRI) at Leeds Metropolitan University on behalf of the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (Department for Communities and Local Government)

• Young Mothers: A study of Young Single Mothers in Two Communities

  Author: Valerie Richardson

• Young People, Drug Use and Early School Leaving

  Author: Comiskey, C.M. and Miller, R.T.H

• Youth Trainees: Early Leavers Study - June 1999

  Author: Department for Education and Employment

3rd of November 2009

Fourth and Last Project Meeting

In the date of October 9th took place the fourth and last project meeting took place in Florence (IT). The project partners analyzed all the activities carried out, the final results achieved and the final conference outcomes.

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Italy

United Kingdom