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TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION
I Do Not Give Up. National Plan for the Prevention of School Dropout (Eu Não Desisto. Plano Nacional de Prevenção do Abandono Escolar)
SURNAME AND NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Ministério da Educação e Ministério da Segurança Social e do Trabalho (Portuguese Education Ministry and Social Security and Work Ministry)
PUBLISHER
Ministério da Educação e Ministério da Segurança Social e do Trabalho (Portuguese Education Ministry and Social Security and Work Ministry)
PLACE AND DATE OF PUBLICATION
2004
TYPE OF PUBLICATION
Report
LANGUAGE OF THE DOCUMENT
Portuguese
LANGUAGE OF THE REVIEW
English
THEMATIC AREA
Identification of students’ at risk
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS
The theme of school dropout is minutely analysed in this publication. The first section contains a conceptual framework of the social phenomenon in the larger social sphere, which branches out into two interconnected models: one which describes school dropout and another which proposes acting on it.
The next section focuses on the Portuguese context and offers the state of the art of school dropout in the country by drawing on differences, connections and comparability of the phenomenon and by analyising the consequences of school dropout. Next, an inventory of educational and social policies is offered to prevent and solve school dropout in Portugal, which includes concrete measures to intervene directly and indirectly on the school dropout phenomenon.
The last section offers recommendations that stem from the descriptive and intervention analysis models presented at the beginning. These constitute a plan for action.
COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLICATION
This action plan is based on the conceptual framework already presented, on a series of national and international commitments accepted by Portugal, and on efforts taken to reduce school dropout. It is a very important policy document that invites readers to a better understanding of the school dropout phenomenon as one of the more negative structural features of the Portuguese education system in the past and still in the present.
Its transferability potential is not high, but it does offer a deep analysis of the school dropout phenomenon from an internal perspective, and from inside the European Union, backed up by a series of statistical data that contribute to the understanding of the problem dynamics and by a plan for action that defines aims that continue to be very relevant for any context.
The recommendations are categorized in four areas: (1) school integration, development support and success promotion; (2) attribute a sense of purpose and utility to school; (3) socially value school and a twelve-year academic experience; (4) Give support to an inter-ministerial approach and to the involvement of the whole society to prevent school dropout, by focusing on the social and youth factors.
Name of Compiler
Domingos Santos
Name of Institution
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
Role in the institution
Researcher

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.