Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

School reintegration and educational alliances: towards an integration of school and community approaches

Catherine Blaya (University of Bourgogne), Ghislain Plunus (University of Liege), Jean-Luc Gilles (Pedagogical high school in the canton of Vaud), Chantal Tièche Christinat (Pedagogical high school in the canton of Vaud).

ERUDIT – Education and Francophonie, virtual scientific magazine

Montreal (Canada) - Fall 2011

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English

This article develops two approaches for the treatment of early school leaving.
School approach
If the school can generate exclusion, it can also cultivate protection factors: supportive, empathy and coaching relationships... that can facilitate the school reintegration of the young person at risk.
The authors illustrate this approach by describing structures that allow students in difficulty to leave (for more or less short periods) of a school environment which they maintain problematic interactions with, to get them to reconstruct themselves in places that offer emotional and cognitive reinvestment opportunities.
Community approach
It has developed for the past fifteen years. It mobilizes a large variety of actors from all sectors of society. The authors illustrate this approach through the research conducted in the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, which seeks the implementation of an inter-sectoral consultation mechanism to fight against school drop-out.

This article makes some proposals for a quality approach in the implementation of new educational alliances incorporating school and community approaches.

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ef/2011/v39/n2/1007736ar.html?vue=resume&mode=restriction

Martine PRIGNON

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