The experimentation of an ecosystemic back-to-school and school persistence program for 16 to 24 year olds
This article proposes a critical analysis of the means implemented within the Learning’s Great When I Can Relate program aimed at fostering the return and persistence in school of 16-24 youths based on the data collected during an evaluative research carried out from 2009 to 2011. It focuses on the way the program’s ecosystemic approach was appropriated by the actors of the program and how it was implemented in the associated means of action. The analysis reveals many difficulties in this appropriation that seem due to how the approach was translated in the tools supporting it and by the actors’ general lack of familiarity with the ecosystemic framework.