TRUANCY AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE OF POZNAN ELITE AND NON-ELITE SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS (Wagarowanie jako praktyka spoleczna mlodziezy elitarnych i nieelitarnych liceów poznanskich)

• Authors: Cylkowska–Nowak Miroslawa
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Truancy is a phenomenon concomitant with school since its early dawn. Children and youth oppose teachers, parents and state authorities by undertaking that form of resistance. Unexplained absence is often accompanied by the infraction of the compulsory education legal rule. Most researches concerning the phenomenon of truancy show its 'dark side'. This consolidates quite a typical perception of the consequences of truancy: it leads to difficulties in learning, revealing aggressive behaviour, petty larcenies, robberies, as well as contracting bad habits and addictions. The image of pupils playing truant constructed on the basis of the mentioned information is negative. Is it the right image? What do present-day secondary school pupils think of truancy? What are their activities during unexplained absence from school? What do they gain and lose through truancy? And the main question of the research - what is different in practising truancy by the Poznan elite and non-elite secondary school pupils? The research is an attempt at answering the above questions. A meta-analysis of chosen western authors' researches on truancy and an interview with the Poznan secondary school pupils exhibiting permanent truancy are used.

Keywords

EN

ELITE SCHOOLS; NON-ELITE SCHOOLS; PUPILS; TEACHERS; TRUANCY

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Lubuskie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Journal: Rocznik Lubuski
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 109-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cylkowska–Nowak Miroslawa

• Miroslawa Cylkowska-Nowak, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu, Wydzial Nauk o Zdrowiu, ul. Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08577