Pondering adolescents’ psychological experience of school in relation to the group experience. A clinical study of school dropout based on adolescent discourse
Study of school dropout over the past 30 years has led to using the key word “dropout” (décrochage scolaire) to refer to adolescents’ relationship to school in political-educational and scholarly discourse within French-speaking countries. This systematization has resulted in categorizing students abased on individual and rationalized criteria of vulnerability. Moreover, school dropout has always been studied from the individual’s point of view. However, life at school is also an experience that confronts subjects in subjective and intersubjective ways, intertwining school psychic experience and adolescent transition. Based on these observations, the article aims to present the results of a psychoanalytically oriented clinical study in education science on the impact of the group in adolescents’ psychological experience of school, in order to hear what subjects have to say about their experience in secondary school.