Pedagogical Causes Of School Failure

Abstract

During school years, students succeed to face, in a higher or lower extent, the school requirements. School results influence the student’s position in the class he/she is part of, in the circle of friends, in the family etc. In its turn, school is appreciated in the community according to the results of the students who are attending it. The unsatisfactory learning results obtained by certain students, reported to their real potential and to the school exigencies represent forms of school failure. The causes of school failure are manifold. There is a series of objective or subjective factors which favour school failure. School has the responsibility to identify these factors and to frame effective prevention and control strategies of school failure. The present paper highlights the pedagogical causes of school failure, analysed from three perspectives: the teachers, the parents of students who face learning difficulties and that of the students who register low school performance, reported to their potential. In this research, there were 135 interviewed people out of which: 45 teachers, 45 parents and 45 students. The paper has tried to identify the main pedagogical causes which determine the school failure and to present effective solutions for the prevention and control of school failure based on the proposals stated by the participants in the research.