A Sociological Study of the Contexts of Educational Dropout in Border Villages of Sardasht

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Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

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This research aims to study the contexts of student academic dropout in border villages of Sardasht County, focusing on the socio-economic characteristics of the region. The secondary objective of the research is to identify the attitudes of students and families towards education and training.
This research was conducted with a social interpretive approach and using the grounded theory method. The statistical population of local informants includes students, teachers, and parents in three border villages of Sardasht, including Qaleh-e-Rash, Biyoran, and Darmanabad. The sampling was purposive, and theoretical saturation was achieved after interviewing 24 people aged 15 to 40.
By conducting open and axial coding stages, categories such as "poverty and resource depletion", "life instability and unstable strategies", "inefficient platforms" and "human capital crisis and value displacement" were extracted and finally the core code was explained as follows: Migration caused by structural poverty and its intensification through inefficient platforms (economic, institutional, educational) leads to educational decline and human capital decline in border areas. This finding showed that prioritizing immediate incomes (such as labor migration) due to the lack of sustainable productive opportunities has diminished the value of education among families. The instrumental and economic attitude of families towards education, which was formed based on the expectation of employment and income generation but was not realized, has caused students to drop out of school.
Educational decline in the border villages of Sardasht is an acute and multifaceted problem that is rooted in socio-economic structural factors, especially the phenomenon of migration, and requires policy interventions that are tailored to the understanding of the local people

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The Journal of Community Development (Rural-Urban)
Volume 17, Issue 2 - Serial Number 33
Autumn and winter 2025
January 2025
Pages 385-403

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