مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Evaluation of Vocational Open High School Students’ Opinions About The Reasons of Being Out of Formal Education

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the vocational open high school students’ opinions about the reasons of being out of formal education. The data of this qualitative study, has been collected from 145 open vocational high school pupils in Batman province by open-ended question forms. By the analysis of the data, the reasons of being out of formal education are found as; school based reasons theme including far distance of the school and bad conditions of the school; environmental reasons theme including compulsory and friend orientation; personal reasons theme including failure and indifference. The reasons for attending to open vocational program are having a job, easier way of education, self development and self-actualizing, working and getting education at the same time, getting graduation, having more time for oneself, the opputunity to have education in marriage. The final result of this study is that the oppurtunity to attend to vocational open education is an important alternative for social and personal inequalities in terms of continuity of formal education, however the limitations about open education’s quality is ongoing matter and measures should be improved for keeping the students in formal education particularly who suffer from the inequality of oppurtunity.