Out of school children in Guinea-Bissau

• Autor(a) principal: Špoljar, Mirna
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29311
• topic: Criança -- Child; School; Guinea-Bissau; Educação -- Education; Abandono escolar -- School abandonment; Escola; Guiné Bissau

In today's world, the value of education is highly emphasized, as is the importance of the quality educational system. Nonetheless, there are significant disparities in terms of the quality of educational systems around the world. The purpose of this thesis is to extract main factors influencing school dropout in Guinea-Bissau. To answer to this question, it was necessary to do a secondary data analysis which was then complimented with interviews. The three interviewees are experts from the field of education, with a proven experience of working on educational research and programs in Guinea-Bissau. The theoretical part of the thesis discusses history of education, definition of out of school children, and it gives an overall description on Guinea-Bissau and its educational system. Results showed how the factors affecting school dropout are interconnected and interdependent, which makes them hard to divide form each other, however main factors extracted, mainly include parent’s and children’s value of education, attitudes towards girls’ education, teachers training and background, and financial bottlenecks. Results are showing how there has been improvement in school enrolment in Guinea-Bissau, however it is still far away from reaching its goal. To tackle all factors influencing school dropout, experts, educationalists, and programme developers should continue developing clear strategies and incentives which can then help in solving the issue of Out of School Children.