Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

School refusal: Juveniles´ subjective theories about the conditions of their school absenteeism

Oehme, A.

Verlag Dr. Kovač

Hamburg, 2007

Specialist publication

German

• Approaches / definitions regarding "school refusal"

• Concepts of the development of school absenteeism (concept of neglect, psychodynamic concept, role theory, concept of school criticism, systemic point of view)

• Comparison of empirical results leading over to the theoretical base of the author´s study (behaviorism, cognitive theory, subjective theory)

• Structured interviews were carried out by the author. The participants were asked to explain their subjective theory of absence retrospectively.

• The chosen method was the realization of case studies (idiographic analysis).

• Interventions with regard to the case studies complete the descriptions.

• Illustrative diagrams give an overview of the process of school absenteeism.

Dr. Gabriele Dlugosch

Zentrum für empirische pädagogische Forschung (zepf)

Head of the Competence Centre Health and Wellbeing