Del abandono educativo temprano al reenganche formativo: un estudio narrativo con biogramas.

The study explores the motives that, according to the students themselves, have led them in the past to a trajectory that culminated in early school leaving. Based on this general objective, the study carried out has an exploratory and heuristic nature and adopted a qualitative methodology in order to obtain knowledge linked to the experience, meaning and context of the protagonist subjects. To do this, and within the framework of a single case study, we have used semi-structured interviews in depth with the young students belonging to the Escuela de la Construcción in Ceuta, which offers training itineraries for the socio-labor insertion of people in situation or risk of social exclusion. This procedure has allowed us to collect information about the trajectory of the students until they were admitted to the center. The stories were subjected to narrative analysis and the results adopted the biogram format, using categories referring to vital stages and scope that allow for the accommodation of the singularities associated with each personal situation. The findings suggest that the resumption of the formative trajectory depends not only on training itself but also on the previous trajectory of the subjects. Reasons pushing students to abandon their education come both from the education centers and from outside them and that both types of reasons will also have an impact on the subsequent decision to resume their training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]