Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

Social Exclusion and School Dropout from the Compulsory Education Scheme in Greece. Myths and Facts.

G. Stamelos,

Ellinika Grammata

Athens, 1999

Paper in the Proceedings of the 8th International Professional Conference, in Ch. Constantinou, G. Pleios (editing), School Failure and Social Exclusion (Causes, Consequences and Tackling the Problem)

Greek

English

Dropping out from the compulsory education scheme does not always lead to unemployment, but it may cause social, political and cultural exclusion. The E.U. policies mainly concern the issue of employment.

The report is well structured and relates the problem of school dropout to the problem of social exclusion in the modern state of affairs.

Anthi Provata

ASPETE, Greece

Assistant Professor