Title:

Educational failure in Polish higher education – internal stakeholders’ perspectives

Creator:

Smużewska, Marcelina ; Wasielewski, Krzysztof ; Antonowicz, Dominik

Publisher:

Educational Research Institute

Date:

2015

Abstract:

The paper aims to address drop-out from Polish higher education, focusing on two fundamental issues: (a) how it has been seen by various internal stakeholders; (b) what kind of action (if any) has been taken to address the problem by institutions themselves. The paper is in three major parts. The first examines the history of empirical studies and includes a major theoretical discussion about forms of educational failure in Poland. The intentionwas to raise all the major problems related to overlap in terminology reflecting the wide range of disciplines, in which drop-out has been researched. The second and the third parts report the empirical research, namely individual (IDI) and focus group interviews (FDI). In the second section special attention is paid to educational failure, while in the third the focus is on the various strategies to reduce its impact used by two institutions in public and private higher education.

Bibliographic citation:

Edukacja. 2015, 4 (135)

Subject and Keywords:

educational failures ; higher education ; selectivity ; student drop-out and retention

Coverage:

21st century

Language:

pol

Rights:

Creative Commons BY 4.0

Resource Type:

article

Format:

application/pdf

ISSN:

0239-6858