Alternative Vocational Schooling for the Dropped-Out: Students' Perceptions of the Activity School of East Finland

Autor/inn/en	Jahnukainen, Markku; Helander, Jaakko
Titel	Alternative Vocational Schooling for the Dropped-Out: Students' Perceptions of the Activity School of East Finland
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 22 (2007) 4, S.471-482 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Nontraditional Education; Dropouts; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Nontraditional Students; Dropout Prevention; Teaching Methods; Program Evaluation; Program Effectiveness; Conventional Instruction; Comparative Analysis; Teacher Student Relationship; Active Learning; Experiential Learning; Secondary School Students; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Aktives Lernen; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Sekundarschüler; Finnland
Abstract	Dropping out of school is a universal problem, concerning fairly similar target groups in all countries. Several action plans to prevent dropping out and to activate the dropouts have been developed worldwide. The object of this study, the Activity School of East Finland, is an exceptionally comprehensive entity, within which alternative pedagogical models are applied during the entire three-year course of vocational education. In this paper, we will review the key figures for the most important variables related to the experiences on the Activity School during the three years studied. The evaluation is based on the students' assessment of the impact of the activity. The added value generated by the Activity School, and compared to comparison group data from traditional vocational education, is most clearly seen as the general satisfaction experienced by the students with the Activity School's operating model and their satisfaction with the student-teacher interaction. (Contains 5 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10