Table 3 A Summary of Young People’s Learning Experiences
Domains | Themes | Positive experiences | Negative experiences |
|---|---|---|---|
Intervention quality | Curriculum and content | Practical training content | Irrelevant training trades and skills Theory-focused curriculums Short duration of training sessions Exploitation of trainees and apprentices as cheap labor |
Instruction and instructor quality | Effective pedagogy Competent instructors | Authoritarian pedagogy Instructors’ negligence Instructors’ inattentiveness to minorities’ learning needs | |
Administration and management | Inefficient and ineffective administrative services Poor management of student performance | ||
Learning environment | Physical environment | Scarcity of material resources Failure to address needs of some subgroups | |
Instructor-learner relationship | Study and work support Emotional support | Differential treatment to different students Distant and indifferent relationship | |
Peer relationship | Supportive and equal relationship | Negative influence of peers’ poor performance Peers’ bully and mocking behavior Isolation by peers |