Improvement of urban planning and design consideration for children dropping out of schools

Abstract EN

The issue of school dropout is a global problem confronting the education industry around the world.

This research introduces a clearer and more comprehensive picture of the school dropouts issue in Mafraq - Jordan in age's group between (5-14 years).

The real causes and the effects on the community, to find out how they can enhance the urban planning and design in Mafraq for children to avoid this phenomenon.

To achieve that goal, it has been a necessity to adopt a descriptive and analytical method for the previous knowledge and take a sequential researching step to build a comprehensive theoretical framework by ing three main vocabularies of the theoretical framework represented by: School dropouts, Urban planning for child, and effective response, then to focus on applying the vocabularies of the theoretical framework on the selected area that located in Mafraq.