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dc.contributor.author | Cefai, Carmel | |
dc.contributor.author | Downes, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Cavioni, Valeria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-08T14:14:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-08T14:14:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cefai, C., Downes, P., & Cavioni, V. (2016). Breaking the cycle : a phenomenological approach to broadening access to post-secondary education. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 31(2), 255-274. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19741 | |
dc.description | This project was in part financed by the University of Malta. | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Over the past decades, there has been a substantial increase in post-secondary education participation in most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union countries. This increase, however, does not necessarily reflect a parallel equitable growth in post-secondary education, and early school leaving is still an issue of concern in particular regions and countries across the world. This paper presents a study on increasing participation in post-secondary education in Malta, the country with the one of the highest proportions of early school leaving in the European Union. The study was carried out in a region with one of the highest rates of early school leaving in the country, making use of a phenomenological approach as well as a resilient systems perspective to early school leaving. On the basis of students’ narratives, the study identifies a number of risk and protective factors in early school leaving and makes various suggestions on how to build more resilient systems to facilitate access to post-secondary education, particularly for students coming from low socio-economic, excluded backgrounds. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dropouts -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social isolation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Education -- Psychological aspects | en_GB |
dc.subject | Postsecondary education -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | Breaking the cycle : a phenomenological approach to broadening access to post-secondary education | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10212-015-0265-6 | |
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