TITLE:
School Refusal or Truancy Challenges: A Special Need for the Collaboration?
AUTHORS:
Normadiyana Abdullah, Abu Yazid Abu Bakar, Mohd Izwan Mahmud
KEYWORDS:
Collaboration, Education, School Refusal, School Truancy, Malaysia
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.11,
November
11,
2020
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 fields 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 reliability 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.