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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION:

School tiredness and school refusal: Phenomena, background and causes

SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Thimm, K.

PUBLISHER:

Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport

PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION:

1998

TYPE OF PUBLICATION:

Report

LANGUAGE/S OF PUBLICATION:

German

LANGUAGE OF REVIEW:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

• Report about conflicts with daily school practice, about school as a system of life and from teachers´ point of view
• Insight into life of and meaning to be a pupil and a teenager
• Definition and explanation of the phenomenon truancy and school absenteeism from an educational and psychological point of view
• Discussion of assets and drawbacks about measures against school drop out
• Guidelines about how to act in case of school tiredness
• Presentation of models of good practice
• Report about the situation in Brandenburg

COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION:

• The author graduated about the subject.
• He gives concrete hints to record school refusal, to understand it and to deal with it.

NAME OF COMPILER:

Dr. Gabriele Dlugosch

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Zentrum für empirische pädagogische Forschung (zepf)

ROLE:

Head of the Competence Centre Health and Wellbeing

News

15 November 2012

Stay@School at the Future of Education Conference

The Stay@School projet will be presented at the third edition of the “Future of Education” international conference, held in Florence, Italy, on 13 - 14 June 2013. Over 250 participants from all over the world will attend the conference. The conference participants belong to the sectors of higher education, school education, vocational education and training as well as adult education, therefore representing all of the target groups of the Stay@School project.

Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving