Keynote Presentation on Early School Leaving

Dr. Paul Downes, Director of DCU's Educational Disadvantage Centre, Associate Professor of Education (Psychology) gave the opening keynote presentation at the three day international conference, Reducing Early School Leaving in the EU: A Comparative Qualitative and Quantitative Research, at the University of Antwerp, January 22nd. The title of his presentation was, Conceptual Foundations of Early School Leaving: From the Tangled Web of Diametric Space to Inclusive Systems as Concentric Relational Spaces.

The other keynote presentation was by Professor Russell Rumberger, Professor Emeritus in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Download the Conference Programme here: [PDF 428kb]