Reasons for Teenagers School Dropout from Occupational Studies in Europe

Abstract

This study is basically a literature review research, that addresses the growing number of teenage drop out across Europe, which clarify the reasons for early school leaving in occupational education. Besides, the study introduces Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as the major mental disorder factor that leads to early school leaving. The literature review section deeply describes the reasons based on the key terms affected by this study, these are; dropout, adolescence, cognitive conception, occupational studies, ADHD and its causes, effects and impact on school dropout. As a result, this literature review seeks to answer the research questions; What are the causes of adolescent school drop across Europe? What are the effects of school dropout to society? This study has used a descriptive literature review method. The data gathering method involved collecting reliable and academic sources such as Google scholar, Ebsco, Pubmed, Cinahl and science direct. Data was collected based on the topic, language, key concepts and the year of publication. Critical appraisal of data has been done on all the selected articles, before using the inductive approach of the content analysis. The data analysis focused on the extent of reasons for teenagers drop out from occupation studies in Europe. The data analysis critically focused on the teenager’s occupation drop out in Europe and stakeholder’s participation as the major areas of answering the research questions. The study found that reasons for school drop include school poor performance, absenteeism, sickness, school administration difficulties, family setbacks example low income, domestic violence and grade repetition. Although school dropout is strongly related to family-level factors, siblings with poor health tended to have reduced opportunity to complete high school compared to healthy siblings.