A phenomenon of juveniles' dropping out of school, and deviating from regular curriculum increases. The causes of such a phenomenon are diverse ranging from dropping out of school, due to family circumstances, delinquency, or disease in the past, and ...
A phenomenon of juveniles' dropping out of school, and deviating from regular curriculum increases. The causes of such a phenomenon are diverse ranging from dropping out of school, due to family circumstances, delinquency, or disease in the past, and to dropping out of school, because of studying abroad at early stages, or aiming at improving school records. However, most students select dropping out of school, because they cannot adapt to the current school system, or surrounding circumstances, such as violences at school or being left out in the cold.
As the causes of dropping out of school are various, the images of the juveniles are exposed diversely. That is, there are juveniles who enter a school of higher grade, learn specialized skills, get a job, come back to school, wander about not adapting to society, and are left out, although they wish to come back to school. The purpose of this study is to identify how the phenomenon of dropping out of school is demonstrated, and to compare and analyze the factors to cause the phenomenon by factor so as to prevent the juveniles' indifferent dropping of out school, and to support the establishment of measures supplementing social supporting system, after their dropping out of school. Towards this end, this study tries to define what dropping out of school is, and to identify factors to cause such a phenomenon, features of each factor, major contents of the existing preceding studies, and differences between the past and recent dropping out of school. A questionnaire survey was carried out to find out general features of the causes of dropping out of school, and the characteristics by each factor.
The survey results are summarized below:
For age distribution among the general features of the survey target, juveniles from the age 17 to 19 accounted for 63.2%, and technical high school accounted for the highest ratio with 37.7% for distribution ratio by school type at the time of juveniles' dropping out of school. While juveniles' dropping out of school ratio was high in the case of single parent in the past, but the dropping out of school ratio of juveniles with both parents is high nowadays. And, juveniles chose their parents as an advisor, when they decided dropping out of school. Concerning whether surrounding people dropped out of school, the ratio of friends was remarkably higher than family or relatives, which implies that the influences of friends are higher to the juveniles nowadays. As a result of the survey of the most necessary facilities or institutions after being dropped out of school, it was found that the ratios of people and institutions that can advise for an opportunity or career path to develop juvenile's interest were high, not the ratio of facilities or institutions to continue to study.
As a result of an analysis by personal factor, peer group factor, family factor, school factor, and social factor with classification of gender, age, and school type among the general features, clear differences by gender, age, and school type were not found regarding the personal, family, and social factors. However, differences by age, and school type were found in the peer group factor, and clear differences by school type were found in the school factor.
In conclusion, it may be most needed and effective to identify the causes of dropping out of school, focusing on the peer group and to devise countermeasures, rather than to find the causes of juveniles' dropping out of school from other external factors. Differences by school type in the school factor imply that measures to prevent juveniles' dropping out of school should be devised and applied in line with the characteristics of school type in consideration of specialized attributes and characteristics of each school type.