Competence-based learning to prevent the school dropout

Abstract

This paper deals with the early interruption of the studies concerning the age group between 18 and 24 years, the problem today defined as early school leaver. The authors propose some reflections about the political-regulatory Euro-pean approach implemented in order to face the problem that has its cultural, social and economic roots. In fact, this phenomenon, in the vast majority of EU countries, has alarming percentages and the Education and Training 2020 strategy plans to decrease the maximum value to 10% of early school leavers from edu-cation and training paths.
To encourage the development of a genuine “European home” in which all citizens are able to adapt themselves to the needs of the labor market, the personal construction / detection of learning and action strategies must be encou-raged, alongside the acquisition of knowledge.
This approach can help to address, analyze and solve problems related to the complexity of social, educational and employment life in a flexible and original way.
In this perspective, the concept of responsibili-ty is not only the outcome of the training pro-cess, but it represents the size of teaching ac-tion whose aim is the constant promotion of active, constructive and proactive attitudes: motivating participation in the contexts of lear-ning, providing incentives to invest in the life/long-wide learning, living and feeling fully Eu-ropean citizen.