VET as a cure and a cause of student disengagement? Analyses of motivation and engagement of students in Flemish vocational education and training

Abstract: The overall aim of my doctoral study was to uncover important mechanisms explaining student disengagement and hereby address the relatively high levels of early leaving from Flemish vocational education and training (VET). In this effort, the four published studies explored different strategies to move beyond the focus on individual level sociodemographic risk indicators in explaining early leaving, often dominating policy discourses. While my argument is that even though structural and systemic features are indispensable to understand and counter enduring educational inequalities, a... Mehr ...