Abstract

TAPIA GARCIA, Guillermo; PANTOJA PALACIOS, Josefina  and  FIERRO EVANS, Cecilia. ¿La escuela hace la diferencia?. El abandono de la escuela secundaria en Guanajuato, México. RMIE [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.44, pp.197-225. ISSN 1405-6666.

Dropping out of secondary school is the result of a multidimensional and multi-factorial process. The population's social/economic/cultural inequalities are present, as well as the opportunity that the school offers to stay in school. The study combines a statistical analysis with personal perspectives. It first identifies modes, environments, and schools with a high dropout rate, and then focuses on the perspective of various agents at school (collective and individual). The study shows that these agents' perceptions and causal attributions regarding dropping out of school reiterate sociocultural guidelines on socioeconomic or gender inequality, independent from school. The educational institution's agents show to be unaware of the school factors that have an important influence on dropping out; as a result, they do not assume responsibility for the implied pedagogical dimension. The school does make a difference.

Keywords : dropping out; equal opportunities; role of school; secondary education; Mexico.

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