Is Reflexive Modernization also an Important Topic among Adolescents within Risk Zones. And Does it also Have Influence on the Further Biographical Unfolding?

Lillian Lundstrøm,Lisbet Oeygard

doi:10.22158/ct.v2n2p92

Abstract

The Alternative School Day (ASD) is a project for adolescents who have difficulties in several arenas. The pupils attended ASD one day per week, and the content in the program is more practical adjusted. Inclusion as a principle are formulated in the educational legislation in many countries throughout the world; however, different special initiatives may have shown positive effects on adolescence in risk zones. Some theorists have emphasized that the normal school is based on middle class values, and for pupils with other class backgrounds, the school, represent “represent an away ground”. Further, we have debated whether reflexive modernization is an important topic also in the general knowledge within the society nowadays, with globalization, extended consumption and several risks associated with the modern society. And we are questioning whether the students could experience the immersive turning points and fateful moment in the biography, where they actually started to look upon themselves as clever and competences pupils, while attending in the ASD.The positive attention and expectation from the teachers, as well as the tasks were more practical oriented, represented the core factors in the positive outcome measures found through this study.

Highlights

Teenagers’ dropout from school is a major problem in Norway, Scandinavia and many other European countries today
The Alternative School Day (ASD) represents an effort to prevent antisocial behaviour, but the findings in this study show that not all the students benefit from attending this project
That these immersive experiences happened in the special school. His father reported that his son had learned more in the special school on a year compared to all the other school years

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Introduction

Teenagers’ dropout from school is a major problem in Norway, Scandinavia and many other European countries today. Important goals during the participation in the ASD are to promote the adolescents capacity for learning, coping, personal responsibility, as well as risks associated with the new challenges within the society nowadays. The problems as presented in this article are as following; the purpose of this paper is to see whether ASD, can enhance the adolescents ability to learn more school-related knowledge by presenting it in a more practical way. We are aiming at mapping how the Alternative School Day (ASD), may enhance the pupils general awareness and consciousness about the “new risks” within the society nowadays. Like for instance, risk related, to globalization and extended consumptions, and to incorporate it into a sort of generic knowledge and continuous reflection This reflection is something that the student can bring with them as a kind of prerequisites and abilities into the grown-up life

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