Les facteurs motivationnels et la persḗvḗrance scolaire chez les filles meres en situation de formation profḗssionnelle a l’ḗcole normale supḗrieure de yaoundḗ

Abstract

This research answers the following question: what are the motivating mechanisms which determine school perseverance in the unmarried mothers in situation of vocational training? We made the report that the entry in a large school is a social advantage in our environment taking into account the difficult socio-economic conditions.When the girls reach a few times it afterwards, they conceive during the formation, but, like Charbonneau (2003) says it, "to choose to have a child at this age is almost undoubtedly to make the choice of a complicated life ".The girls evolve/move in a reality different and often strewn with obstacles. In spite of that does not prevent that the school level of performances of the coeds of the ENS remains high, although they are in a state of pregnant girl or girl mother in situation of vocational training. The objective of this study is to determine the motivating mechanisms which are at the base of the school perseverance of the unmarried mothers in situation of vocational training, with an aim of including/understanding the pregnancies and the births whereas they are in situation of vocational training. The sample of this study consists of five girls including four having been confined at the time of the formation and an enclosure during the formation.The ages vary 20 years to 28 years considered as one period post-teenager and where the subjects have a certain maturity, although being young people.The directed talks were passed individually and following the transcription of the verbatim, of the analyses sets of themes were carried out. From these analyses it comes out that the girls mothers persevere at the school to feel autonomous thus putting in margin the other fundamental needs for school perseverance to know the need for competence and the need for social membership. In other words, it is released from the observations and the speeches of the questioned girls whom they strongly express the need for autonomy which is related to their will to feel responsible and independent at the exit of their formation. This need for autonomy in their situation is nourished by the fact that they are conscious that they are not any more like the others which did not have yet births, which did not give birth to. In other words they are conscious that they can procreate and thus have the proof of their fruitfulness and that at the end they will have a diploma which will lead to a work.