ABSTRACT
Truancy, as a term, is perversely often associated with fun. That is, it is considered by some to be more fun to be outside a school avoiding formal lessons and in theory doing what you like rather than sitting inside a classroom and ‘learning’. This concept is the theme of Webster’s famous painting of The Truant’ in the nineteenth century which depicts two absconders standing, elated, outside their small school-room nervously peering in at the activities inside.
