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Prevalence and Correlates of Truancy among School-Going Adolescents in Mozambique: Evidence from the 2015 Global School-Based Health Survey

The Scientific World Journal, 2019
This study examined the prevalence of truancy and its associated factors among 1500 school-going adolescents using the 2015 Mozambique Global School-based Student Health Survey data.
Abdul-Aziz Seidu
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Frequency, stability and differentiation of self-reported school fear and truancy in a community sample

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2008
Background Surprisingly little is known about the frequency, stability, and correlates of school fear and truancy based on self-reported data of adolescents. Methods Self-reported school fear and truancy were studied in a total of N = 834 subjects of the
Metzke Christa, Müller Nora, Steinhausen Hans-Christoph   +2 more
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School attendance and school absenteeism: A primer for the past, present, and theory of change for the future

Frontiers in Education, 2022
School attendance and school absenteeism have been studied for over a century, leading to a rich and vast literature base. At the same time, powerful demographic, climate, social justice/equity, and technological/globalization forces are compelling ...
Christopher A. Kearney, Laelia Benoit, Carolina Gonzálvez, Gil Keppens   +3 more
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The impact of the motivational intervention on students' motor abilities [PDF]

Fizička Kultura, 2013
The Object of the present study was primary school students' motivation in physical education classes. The Study aim was to test genuine motivational program in physical education classes and assessment of its contribution to improvement of motor ...
Dobraš Radenko, Dragosavljević Proko, Vučković Igor, Gadžić Aleksandar, Lepir Duško   +4 more
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Gender-Based Biopsychosocial Correlates of Truancy in Physical Education: A National Survey among Adolescents in Benin

Social Sciences
Truancy among in-school adolescents has long been established as a major issue that negatively impacts educational attainment or goals and mental health-related issues.
Medina Srem-Sai, Edmond Kwesi Agormedah, John Elvis Hagan, Newton Isaac Gbordzoe, Jacob Owusu Sarfo   +4 more
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Using narrative practices to support academic development in an after-school program

International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2023
This paper describes the use of narrative practices in work with young people in an after-school academic support program in Tanzania. Through games, outsider witnessing, re-authoring conversations and the Tree of Life process, we brought to light skills
Deborah Mrema
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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart, Kate Fitz‐Gibbon, Steven Roberts   +2 more
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The impact of truancy on educational attainment: A bivariate ordered probit estimator with mixed effects [PDF]

, 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both
Buscha, Franz, Conte, Anna
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Young people, crime and school exclusion: a case of some surprises [PDF]

, 2005
During the 1990s the number of young people being permanently excluded from schools in England and Wales increased dramatically from 2,910 (1990/91) to a peak of 12,700 (1996/97).
Advisory Centre for Education, Audit Commission, Berridge D., Brodie I., Brodie I., Brodie I., Cohen L.E., Cohen L.E., Cohen R., Department for Education and Employment, Downes D., ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd, Farrington D.P., Farrington D.P., Farrington D.P., Flood-Page C., Garland D., Gilbertson D., Goldson B., Graham J., Graham J., Grimshaw R.H., Hagell A., Harris N., Hayden C., Hayden C., Holdaway S., Home Office, Home Office, Jamieson J., Junger-Tas J., Jupp V., Le Blanc M., Levitas R., McManus M., Mitchell L., Morgan R., Munn P., NACRO, O'Keefe D., OFSTED, Parsons C., Pawson R., Pitts J., Pomeroy E., Powis B., Rutter M., Rutter M., Sampson R.J., Searle C., Smith R., Social Exclusion Unit, West D.J., Wikstrom P.-O., Wilson H., Wilson H., Young J.   +56 more
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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