This guide, entitled “Preventing dropout in vocational training: guidelines and proposals”, aims to provide vocational training teachers and centres with guidelines and resources to prevent students from dropping out of vocational training.
The guide is organised into two sections: the first analyses the problems and causes of dropout from vocational training studies, focusing on data from the Balearic Islands, specifically data obtained within the framework of the IEAFP project.
The second section develops aspects of educational intervention with evidence to prevent dropout, taking as a primary reference the educational practices of the centres.
Specifically, the schools that participated in this study were the Cooperativa Jovent, the Cooperativa d’Ensenyament Es Liceu, the IES Sa Colomina and the CIPF Son Llebre. Some of the proposals for action elaborated in this guide involve active methodologies and competency-based work, as well as improving the link between teachers and pupils.
In short, this guide aims to be an initiation that will allow us to begin disseminating successful experiences carried out in the Balearic Islands, as a prevailing need to share knowledge, document evidence and make the reality of the classroom known.
Finally, it should be noted that this guide results from a collaborative effort between the teaching staff of the Department of Applied Pedagogy and Educational Psychology of the University of the Balearic Islands and the vocational training teaching staff of the participating educational centres and organisations.