Diversos condicionantes del fracaso escolar en la educación secundaria

Abstract

The so called «school failure», for which we present an original definition, represents a complex phenomenon that is extended throughout Ibero-America, even though there is a significant disparity between countries and regions. We are facing something that generates unease and inequality, and with an impact that goes beyond school walls. In these pages, we approach school failure from a mainly pedagogical pespective. All in all, we acknowledge that school performance in every educational level is the result of a constellation of factors. For this reason, after doing our own research, the reflecting and checking the correspondent bibliography, this article gives a outlook of the determining factors o school performance in high school. At the same time, we present, more o less explicitly, proposals to improve the student’s learning process.