Bibliography

• How does community learning work and how does it help reduce ESL?

  With community learning, the entire school community engages in a cohesive and collaborative action with external agents (e.g. sport, cultural, industrial organisations). It promotes informal educator-student relations and teaching methods and thus encourages own action and participation in the learning process of (potential) ESL student. It accounts for students’ needs and interests.

  Keywords : community learning  community-based education  informal education  whole school approach 
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11 February 2015, by Klaudija Šterman Ivančič

• The relationship between teachers’ teaching styles, students’ engagement in school and ESL

  A teacher’s teaching style (authoritative, authoritarian and permissive) affects students’ experience in school. It can provoke functional or non-functional perceptions of learning, self-efficacy and schoolwork, thus an appropriate teaching style can help prevent early school leaving.

  Keywords : early school leaving  school engagement  self-determination  teacher-student relationship  teaching style 
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23 July 2015, by Tina Rutar Leban

• Support for autonomy, competence and relatedness using school – community collaboration as a systematic ESL prevention tool

  The local community (school–community collaboration) can play an important role in preventing ESL by supporting a student’s basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness. Autonomy, competence and relatedness are the building stones of intrinsic motivation that is crucial for students to stay in school.

  Keywords : cross-sectorial cooperation  local community  relatedness  school-community 
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23 July 2015, by Ana Kozina

• Non-formal motivational focuses for potential early school leavers

  It is possible to foster the learning motivation of potential ESLrs already in mainstream education by applying non-formal and informal educational principles to teaching and learning processes. The teacher has two main pathways for enhancing the motivation of at-risk students: by recognising their informally gained knowledge and by organising non-formal learning environments and learning experiences.

  Keywords : informal education  motivation 
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23 July 2015, by Klaudija Šterman Ivančič

• Andragogical knowledge and skills for teachers in mainstream education as prevention for ESL*

  Andragogy is a learner-centred approach to teaching and learning. By incorporating its principles of acknowledging learners as autonomous, self-directed, pragmatically and problem-solving oriented and internally motivated into mainstream education already at early stages, teachers can help prevent ESL.

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23 July 2015, by Klaudija Šterman Ivančič