Catalogue of Measures for Teachers, School Principals, and Parents to Prevent or More Effectively Deal with School Absenteeism and Early School Leaving. The Beginning of a New School Culture

MA 23 – EU-Strategy and Economic Development, Labour and Economics Department of the City of Vienna

The alienation and distancing of students from school usually progresses gradually. Carefully planned preventive action, which should also be part of positive school and teaching development, enables timely professional intervention in this otherwise often hidden process. Through intensive research in international educational science fields, preventive and intervention measures against school dropout were identified and critically evaluated with regard to their usefulness in Viennese schools. Over 100 high-quality individual studies from abroad were selected and analyzed in order to develop recommendations for action aimed at school administrators, teachers, and parents or legal guardians.
The result is a catalogue of measures that can be applied to all types of school and is divided into 59 recommendations for action, each accompanied by detailed instructions.