Acting Up or Opting Out: An Analytical Literature Review of Extant South African and International School Truancy Studies

Acting Up or Opting Out? Truancy in Irish Secondary Schools

This paper explores the way in which truancy levels are structured by individual social class and the social mix of the school within the Republic of Ireland. Drawing on a national survey of young people, truancy levels are found to be higher among working-class and Traveller students. Truancy is more prevalent in predominantly working-class schools, mainly because young people see them as less...

Truancy—Or School Phobia?

The 1959 Inter-Clinic Conference (which is restricted to Child Guidance Clinic personnel) had as its topic the problems of Truancy and School Phobia. In addition to its considerable professional value to the participants, this Conference revealed a number of other important aspects of the problem. It showed that this topic had considerable "news value" to the lay public : it emphasised how clos...

Obtaining parental consent--opting in or opting out?

In a population based project aimed at identifying children with specified disabilities within a health region, there was, rightly, concern about the transfer of data on named children across health district boundaries. Two methods of obtaining parental consent for this process were tested. High recruitment rates were achieved using an 'opting out' approach.

Opting in or out of organ donation.

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School refusal and truancy.