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Case-Study: Vocational School in Latvia
Baltic Institute of Social Sciences |
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| This preliminary report was written within the framework of the Include-ED Project 2: European effective educational practices: How is education contributing to overcome or reproduce social exclusion? Project 2 aims to analyze components from educational practices that are decreasing the rates of school failure and those practices that are increasing them. In order to study educational practices altogether 20 case studies were carried out in Latvia, Spain, Finland, UK, Cyprus, and Hungary. For each case study one educational institution from pre-primary, primary, secondary, vocational or special education field was chosen. In Latvia, four case studies were carried out by the Baltic Institute of Social Sciences at different levels: pre-primary, primary, secondary and vocational educational institutions. This report is one of the four preliminary reports focused on vocational education. The selection of schools was based upon two main criteria established in Annex 1 of the Includ-ED Project. The school had to have demonstrated contribution to school success (as defined by children’s educational attainment) in relation to their specific context. Secondly, the school had to respond to a number of social characteristics, including low socio-economic status of students and students with a minority background. For the case study in Latvia on vocational education the Riga Secondary school of construction trades (RBV) was selected. |
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