An Institutional Analysis of Local Lifelong Learning Approaches to Early School Leaving in Italy and Spain

Xavier Rambla () and Maddalena Bartolini
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Xavier Rambla: Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Maddalena Bartolini: IRCrES—Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Research Council of Italy, 10135 Torino, Italy

Societies, 2023, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: In this paper, we will analyze how a few initial vocational education and training (VET) schools have elaborated wide-ranging responses to early leaving from education and training in Liguria (Italy) and Catalonia (Spain). In contrast with many members of the EU and the OECD, the prevailing institutional arrangements in these two countries hardly support disadvantaged youths to catch up with basic academic performance and find an appealing pathway between compulsory and post-compulsory education. Despite this bias of official policies, we argue that some initial VET schools manage to navigate the interface between social structure and agency and accommodate the aspirations of disadvantaged students by involving local stakeholders and shaping school time organization in a particular way.

Keywords: VET schools; public policy analyses; early school leaving from education and training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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