2019

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THE VOICES OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION POLICY
(UMT, Lahore, 2019) Farzana Nazir
This study was aimed to investigate and document the voices of Out of School Children and their Parents in order to identify some implications for education policy. This study identified major causes for being out of school such as policy barriers because of poor legislation, psychological and cultural constraints, demographic changes, and socioeconomic disparities. Qualitative research approach with a case study design and the ethnographic method was used to explore the views for being oof school for children and their parents in-depth and to get a clear picture of their problems which were the main causes of being out of school. For this purpose Thematic analysis of interviews of both children and parents regarding out of school and drop out children, focus group discussion of children, focus group discussion of parents, reasons for out of school Facebook data and reasons for dropout Facebook data was conducted. This process was done with the help of NVivo 11 plus software. The population comprised of Out of School Children and their parents in Punjab.