Design Research - Identified issues
Identifying issues for student dis-engagement 1. Adolescent Identity Crisis
2. Anxiety & Distress
3. Isolation & Dis-engagement
4. School Dropouts
Identity formation is a foundational & central developmental concern for adolescence. It is an ongoing life long process, which begins at the early childhood. However, during adolescence, it has a substantial physical and psychological affect on an individual who is battling with emergence of new social expectations from other individuals. (Abbassi, 2016)
In a globalised Australian market, and increased competition from foreign countries, it has become a minimum requirement to complete secondary school education, in order to secure any white-collar job or get access to vocational training and university education. Early school dropout is resulting in increased psychological stress on a student with limited career prospects.
For students, who become a victim of abstract-ism, they cannot see a connection between what they learn and what they observe outside the school environments. It becomes more relevant in the middle years, when the teacher focuses on one subject rather than the whole course, leading to disintegration of disciplines. (Moore and Glancy,2013)
Dr. Ben Cleveland, who is a is a Research Fellow with the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN), and professor at The University of Melbourne’s design school has suggested that disengagement has a detrimental outcome for an individual and has associated problems for the wider community. There is a greater chance for early school dropout for students concerned with disengagement. (Cleveland, 2016)
Illustration of identified issues, students commonly face in an education environment
