School Refusal or Truancy Challenges: A Special Need for the Collaboration?
- 1 Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
- 2 Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
- 3 Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract
School has an important role in determining the quality and students’ indication as well as the success factors of a student. Students who achieve high success in academic field s are led by teachers with effective leadership and learning skills. Indeed, the success of a student requires the cooperation of various special needs parties with good and superior characters. Selection and intervention procedures of a school should follow a verified method. The whole process needs to go through the phase of validity and reli ability to ensure the quality and height of the quality of any interventions given towards outstanding academic and personality of a person . Punishments directly according to absenteeism data, warning letters and parental consultations are very helpful and improved in terms of the requirements of counselling guidance units to provide early prevention to prevent chronic and alarming conditions. Numerous studies have shown that, apart from school factors, teachers or credibility counsellors , parents, peers should also be together in providing cooperation towards achieving this school refusal or truancy challenges. This paper will discuss in terms of the needs and interventions of school refusal or truancy who are effective as well as a more objective mechanism framework through the interventions that can be applied to teachers or counsellors who will help spearhead the personality development of student towards later.
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