Psychosocial dimensions of school failure

If we start from the premise that the role of school is to train the student in relation to a social ideal, and the school fulfills an obvious socialization function, it follows that school failure is the failure of socialization in the school space. This failure can be interpreted both as a cause and as an effect of school dropout. The inability of the environment to provide the student with a supportive framework that meets his needs and to which he can adapt, causes him to give up attending school. Of course, in this situation, we discuss school dropout as a result of a personal decision of the student, motivated to give up the fact that he cannot adapt to the school environment. In this article, we aim to find out which are the individual and social factors that make school failure possible and how the two categories of factors are correlated. We will critically analyze a series of models in psychology and psycho-sociology, then we will highlight the importance of negative socialization in peer groups, as an important predictor of school failure, and we will finally discuss the issue of school phobia and methods of intervention in this condition.