Engagement in At-Risk Students Trajectories: Perspective From The Levels of Approach To The Student

Abstract

Student engagement within education has been an area of increasing interest over recent years as one of the factors that needs to be taken into consideration when addressing one of the main issues in education - school dropout. The objective of this paper is to provide oversight of how being engaged in the educational trajectories of young people who are at risk takes place. This will involve applying the theory of life course as the main driver of the research. A qualitative method is used which adopts a biographical and narrative approach via semi structured in-depth interviews. The main results have revealed that: 1) there are stages in which events that facilitate positive or negative engagement are more predominant; 2) generally, there are more negative critical events that result in a decline in the quality of student engagement; 3) there are several factors that stand out in each of the stages of the student trajectories.

School Dynamics and Their Role in the Educational Trajectories of At-Risk Students

“…Many of these problems have been addressed in a more or less successful way over the years. This is the case of the problems addressed in this article, how the school affects the educational trajectories of students at risk of exclusion and how the different divergences that can occur in their educational trajectories are shown (Bernárdez-Gómez, 2022;Bernárdez-Gómez, González Barea et al, 2021, 2022Boyaci, 2019;Quijada & Ríos, 2021). These are young people who are unduly deprived of the most basic rights, such as education or their own development.…”