| With a view to developing and refining the tools needed to better solve the problem of school drop-out rates, this research interests itself in the accompaniment of the student and the resulting success in the school. It is addressed to the 16 to 24 year old students that are attending Quebec's FGA Education Centres. The general objective is describing what practices are used to accompany the student toward success while also identifying and describing the characteristics and objectives of said practices. In order to achieve this goal, three research questions have been studied, namely: 1) what are the accompaniment methods used in FGA; 2) what are the objectives sought with the use of these methods, and; 3) what are the characteristics of these methods?;This research leans on the approach of sociology of education developed by Francois Dubet (1994), and proposes to examine three dimensions (pedagogical, personal, and social) as well as seven methods of student accompaniment: tutoring, counselling, pair work, assistance between peers, mentoring, cyber-mentoring, and teacher pedagogical methods. The undertaking is aimed at establishing a group of accompaniment practices for the student in his environment. All of these practices, prior to our research, had never been tabulated. The results obtained permit us to observe an important deployment of several accompaniment methods in use in FGA, including the teachers' own pedagogical methods. In fact, tutoring and counselling are two methods that score high marks. In addition, this research has helped make it possible to document in a rather complete manner the teachers' pedagogical methods in said student accompaniment, and to understand the dynamics of these methods in student successes at school.;Upon the completion of this research, two sources of knowledge stand out. The first one emanates from the components of the theoretical model presently being studied, while the second relates to the specificity of the teachers' pedagogical methods. In both cases the results, as well as the analyses, reveal the importance of the pedagogical dimension with respect to accompanying the FGA student, which in turn leads us back to the important contribution made by the teacher in student accompaniment in FGA, as in fact the teacher includes student accompaniment in the actual practice of teaching.;Keywords: Scholar accompaniment, guidance, follow-up, support-help, guardian-support, tutoring-guide-frame of work, success, high school drop-out, adult education, social inequalities. |
