EVASÃO ESCOLAR: UMA REALIDADE NO CURSO DE EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS INTEGRADA À EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL DO IFTO - CAMPUS PALMAS

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the perception of different historical subjects about dropping out from the Customer Service course, offered by the Youth and Adult Education Integrated with Vocational Education, a specific course modality on IFTO – Campus Palmas. Besides, other objectives of specific characters were established. The first was the identification of dropout rates of EJA/EPT courses on IFTO – Campus Palmas, from 2017 to 2018. The second was related to identifying the factors that lead to school dropout. The third was the analysis of the strategies that the institution has used to improve school permanence. The main question we ask in this paper is: what is the perception of the different subjects concerning dropout in the Customer Service course, offered in the EJA/EFA modality? The theme chosen was due to the high number of students who dropped out in recent years. The methodological approach adopted in this research is centered on a dialectical perspective since it seeks to reveal contradictory elements, relating them to social logic, demanding an analysis based on the socio-political, socio-cultural and economic context. The investigative procedures were based on qualitative and quantitative research and case study. The methodological resources for data collection were: bibliographic research, documentary research, field research with applications of questionnaires and finally, the elaboration of an educational product. To construct an empirical basis, Customer Service students (enrolled and evaded) and teachers were selected, as well as the Permanence and Success Committee members of Palmas Campus. As theoretical contribution to the reflections of this research were studied researchers such as Cruz; Gonçalves (2015); Dal-Farra; Lopes (2013); Dore; Lüscher (2011); De Oliveira; Machado (2012); Mayo (2004); Moura (2007; 2012), Paulo Freire (2011); Gadotti (2006), among others. As an educational product, a project named “The IFTO Student Evasion Life Observatory” was created to be developed by all units of the institution, as an act of the Institutional Strategic Plan for Access, Permanence and Success of IFTO Students. The survey results demonstrated that dropout cases are related to several factors. The teachers pointed out as dropout factors: financial and study difficulties; insufficient attendance and difficulty to conciliate school and work. On the other hand, students pointed out: the difficulty in reconciling study and work; personal problems and difficulty in keeping up the course due to time out of school. The students also highlighted that assistance programs do influence the decision to stay or leave the course, such as stay, food and transport allowance. The research results reveal the need for efforts by different institutions spheres of activity (managers, teachers, administrative technicians), to establish actions that support students' permanence on the Customer Service course through monitoring each student as proposed by The IFTO Student Evasion Life Observatory. Based on the data collected by the Observatory, it will be possible to evaluate the necessary measures for each case to perform a preventive word and rescue these students from evasion.