Evasão escolar: um estudo de caso no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Tocantins - Campus Porto Nacional

Abstract

This research deals with truancy at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Tocantins - Campus Porto Nacional, considering school dropout as one of the concerns that plague many school units and that can cause various effects on people's lives. One has to analyze the factors involved in truancy at the federal level and its impact on the educational process of the Federal Institute of Tocantins - Campus Porto Nacional, considering the conflicts in the implementation of public policy in Professional Education.And how specific objectives are: to understand how public policies for vocational education are formulated and its relations with the educational processes of the Federal Institute of Tocantins - Porto Nacional Campus; understand the students' conditions of stay regarding the curriculum and teacher training for vocational education; identify the intervening factors that cause school dropout. The methodological approach used was quantitative and qualitative through the case study.For the theoretical foundation appealed to the bibliographic research on vocational education in Brazil, was used as authors Manfredi (2002), Pereira (2003), Romanelli (2005), among others; in public policy area applied to education: we sought to Kuenzer (2006), Oliveira and Duarte (2001), among others, on truancy, we used the studies of authors such as Marchesi (2004), Patto (1993 ), Arroyo (1993), and the current legislation. For desk review, so worked triangulation of sources: Census of Higher Education and Educacenso, prepared by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Teixeira - INEP, reports of School Records Coordination CORES - Campus Porto Nacional.Classes were analyzed that had large dropout rate, if the technical classes in Sales and Degree in Computer, in the period from 2010 to 2013. Among the respondents have three dropout students of the institution who were located and studied further two teachers, 2 Coordinators Course, 1 Technician Educational Affairs, 1 Student Assistant and one social worker. We highlight some of the avoidance of causes are: incompatibility combine studies with work; students who did not identify with the course; students with learning disabilities; and has as a consequence the closure of one of the courses of the Federal Institute - Campus Porto Nacional. It is intended with this dissertation contribute to the deepening of discussions in order to combat the dropout at the Instituto Federal de Educação.