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Factors Discouraging Students From Schooling: A Case Study At Junior Secondary School In Laos, Chanthaboun Keoviphone, Udik Budi Wibowo

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This study is aimed at exploring and describing the factors discouraging Laos students from schooling at a secondary school in various contexts such as classroom and school, individual student, family, and community contexts. Descriptive qualitative approach was used, and the framework of the study was formulated around the aspects of school and classroom situation, principal's management process, teachers' teaching organization and performance, parents' involvement and perception, and community's involvement and perception. The data were collected through observation, document analysis, and interview from 10 students, six teachers, one principal, one vice principal at Phonsyneua Junior Secondary School, and seven parents whose …