School Absenteeism and School Refusal Behavior: A Review and Suggestions for School‐Based Health Professionals

Kearney, Christopher A.; Bensaheb, Arva

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“…Some researchers have identified school absenteeism as a complex and a heterogeneous problem that can be influenced by many factors (Kearny, 2008;Kim & Streeter, 2006;& Lauchlan, 2003). Romero (2008) Uche & Maliki (2013) stressed that absenteeism and dropout can be caused by difficult terrain and long distances from school which tempt or force children to withdraw prematurely from school.…”

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“…School absenteeism is defined as excused or unexcused absences from school by a child (Reid, 2005). Kearny (2008) puts it to be the persistent, habitual, unexpected and unexplained absences from school of a child of compulsory school age. It then implies that absenteeism occurs when a child absents himself from school for whatever reason or when constant learning is interrupted.…”

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“…Dropouts are more unlikely than their peers who finished school to gain employment rather, they live in poverty, receive public assistance in prison or police custody, in poor health, divorced, untimely single parenthood with children who are likely to be dropouts (Shadreck, 2013). Drop outs are also linked to depression and anxiety, and most times resort to use of substance and other problematic and risky behaviours (Kearny 2008;Antwi-Danso & Edet, 2011). It can also result in failure to fulfil major responsibility in work and school (Abraham, 2004).…”

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School absenteeism among primary school pupils in cross river state: psychological implication for national development

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2016

Gl Jnl Educ Res

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Handling of issues and challenges in education at the primary school level believed to be the foundation on which other levels of education rest on will either promote or mar the onward movement of individuals to the other levels of education and the achievement of the objective of education as an instrument for national development. It is against this background that this study attempted to examine the causes of school absenteeism among primary school pupils in the three senatorial zones of Cross River State and proffer solution to remedy the problem. Two research questions were posed to direct the study. Data were collected with the researcher's developed and structured questionnaire captioned: School Absenteeism Questionnaire (SAQ). Multi-stage sampling technique involving stratified and simple random sampling procedures were used to select three hundred and twenty (320) pupils out of three hundred and two thousand, two hundred and ten (302,210) primary six pupils in public schools in Cross River State. They were drawn from 16 primary schools in eight (8) randomly selected local government areas across the three (3) senatorial Zones in Cross River State. Frequencies and simple percentages were utilized to answer the research questions. The finding revealed that financial constraints, lack of interest, illnesses, pampering from family members, location of school were the major causes of absenteeism among pupils. It was recommended among others that parents and their children and/or wards should be counselled on the effect of absenteeism on school performance and its long term consequences on national development.

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School absenteeism among primary school pupils in cross river state: psychological implication for national development

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2016

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“…Por otro lado, el término de absentismo escolar es un concepto también referente a la inasistencia a la escuela. No obstante, difiere en su carácter reiterado de ausencias injustificadas, no basadas en la ansiedad y llevadas a cabo sin el consentimiento paterno (Kearney, 2008;Kearney y Bensaheb, 2006).…”

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Revisión bibliométrica del rechazo escolar: perspectivas de investigación y su análisis

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1 Esta investigación se ha realizado a través de la ayuda para la contratación de personal investigador en formación predoctoral, Programa Propio del Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación para el fomento de la I+D+I de la Universidad de alicante, concedida a la tercera autora y el proyecto "Evaluación de la ansiedad escolar y su relación con variables psicoeducativas en la infancia. Estudio de la eficacia de un programa preventivo" (EDU2012-35124), adjudicado al primer autor. Resumen:El rechazo escolar es una de las problemáticas educativas que interfiere negativamente en el desarrollo social y educativo del niño. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la productividad científica sobre rechazo escolar durante el periodo 2004- Abstract:School refusal is a type of educational problem that affects negatively the social and educational development of children. Résumé:Le refus scolaire est l'une des problèmatiques éducatives qui perturbe le développement social et éducatif de l'enfant. L'objectif de cette étude a été d'analyser la productivité scientifique sur le refus scolaire entre 2004 et 2013, dans le but de fournir une description détaillée de l'état actuel de la recherche sur le refus de l'école, et de communiquer les derniers apports scientifiques obtenus. De ce fait, un échantillon de 345 expertises a pu être établi après avoir procédé à la recherche bibliographique grâce à quatre bases de données internationales. Les résultats de la recherche ont révélé une augmentation progressive des niveaux de productivité et ont souligné l'intérêt scientifique des études au sujet du traitement du refus scolaire et des facteurs de risque associés à l'absentéisme. Cette étude bibliométrique permet de rendre compte de l'évolution de la recherche sur le refus scolaire au cours des dix dernières années. Elle peut également, en tant que cadre de référence, être utile à des recherches futures dont la connaissance des tendances d'analyse plus développées, et des lignes de recherche émergentes serait indispensable, lesquelles devront faire preuve d'un élargissement de leurs études et d'une consolidation scientifique.

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“…A sharp distinction is constructed between, on the one hand, active human agents who are regarded as using the software as a pedagogical instrument to improve educational practice, and on the other hand, the passive computer software that is being used. This human-centered and individualistic notion of school absence is evident in much of the literature on truancy and school absence (Huck 2011;Kearney and Bensaheb 2006;Reid 2006;Sommer 1985;Veenstra et al 2010). Contrary to this notion, other researchers have shown that school absence is a multifactored problem, emerging in relations between students, families, the culture of the school and the school environment (Claes et al 2009;Corville-Smith et al 1998;Southwell 2006).…”

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Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students’ school absences

Bodén

2013

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Linnea Bodén is a Ph.D. student of Educational practice at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University. Her research focuses on school absenteeism and truancy and draws on a feminist relational materialist and posthumanist perspective, with a special interest in technical tools for the registration and control of absence. 2Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students' school absences An increasing number of Swedish municipalities use digital software to manage the registration of students' school absences. The software is regarded as a problem-solving tool to make registration more efficient, but its effects on the educational setting have been largely neglected. Focusing on an event with two students from a class of eleven-year olds, the aim of the paper is to explore schools' common uses of computer software for registering absence in order to understand how materialities -like the software -are entangled with the production of school absence. In the paper, the Deleuzio-Guattarian concept of the assemblage is put to work within a feminist relational materialist framework.This enables an understanding of the complexity of school absence, where materialities of the educational setting are theorized as entangled with social and gendered discursive components.

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School Absenteeism and School Refusal Behavior: A Review and Suggestions for School‐Based Health Professionals

Cited by 94 publications

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School absenteeism among primary school pupils in cross river state: psychological implication for national development

School absenteeism among primary school pupils in cross river state: psychological implication for national development

Revisión bibliométrica del rechazo escolar: perspectivas de investigación y su análisis

Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students’ school absences

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