Towards a School-Community Based Approach to Addressing Student Absenteeism

该项目旨在制定一种学校-社区综合办法，以协助教育系统有效地解决边缘化社区的学生缺勤问题。过度旷课与学业成绩低下和辍学有关，这限制了年轻人的生活机会，并使社会劣势永久化。该项目将使用跨学科方法，将学校和社区的经验、现有的研究证据和学者结合在一起，使学校能够以新的方式提高出勤率。预期结果将是提高学校解决旷课问题的能力，同时帮助政府减轻这一长期问题的社会和经济代价。

This project aims to develop an integrated school-community approach to assist education systems to effectively address student absenteeism in marginalised communities. Excessive absenteeism is linked to low academic achievement and school dropout, which limits young people’s life opportunities and perpetuates social disadvantage. This project will use interdisciplinary methods to bring the experiences of schools and communities, existing research evidence, and academics together to enable schools to work in new ways to improve attendance. Expected outcomes will be enhanced capacity of schools to address absenteeism with the benefit of assisting the government to alleviate the societal and economic costs of this enduring problem.