Association with peers
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- Community resources
- Educational and career aspirations
- Feelings of depression
- Management practices
- Motivation and engagement
- Neighbourhood of residence
- Nutrition and physical activity
- Pedagogical and educational practices
- School climate
- School performance in reading, writing and mathematics
- Self-control and social and behavioural conduct
- Self-esteem
- Student/teacher relationship
- Support for students having difficulty
- The determinants of school perseverance
- Tobacco, alcohol and drugs
- Value placed on education and parental involvement
- Work/school balance
Adolescents easily absorb influences, images, and models that they are exposed to. In this sense, spending time with friends who are motivated by school will shape young people’s attitudes toward school. Future dropouts tend to spend time with peers who have dropped out, who may potentially drop out, or who have low educational goals. Through modeling, a group of delinquent friends could harm a student’s engagement with school and be a factor in their eventual dropping out.
Courses of effective action
- Increase opportunities to interact with positive peers.
- Offer varied extracurricular activities that interest youth, including outreach activities, to ensure that especially vulnerable youth take part.
- Promote joint actions between schools, families, and the community.
- Establish a positive disciplinary system at home and at school.
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