Primary and Secondary School Dropouts

A Matter of Survival

A life-course approach to understanding the decision-making and economic livelihoods of school dropouts in Trinidad and Tobago.

RESEARCH QUESTION 1

What were the household characteristics of participants while attending school, immediately after leaving school, and now?

RESEARCH QUESTION 2

Who returned to education or continued to develop their skills, and how did their characteristics and communities differ from those who did not attain more education since leaving school?

RESEARCH QUESTION 3

To what extent do the reasons for school-leaving affect livelihoods and outcomes?

Certain urban places, such as Morvant and San Juan/Laventille in the St. George West school district are socio-spatially stigmatized and marginalized; however, a cursory examination of dropout data from the Ministry of Education reveals that the school district with the highest number of dropouts, and the highest number of female dropouts, after primary school is the south district of Victoria.
MOE, 2004, pp 54-55.

OUR PARTNERS

School of Education, UWI St. Augustine
Institute of Gender and Development Studies
Ryerson University
The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine
National Community Based Researchers
Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee