As contribuições da rede jovem de futuro para a sustentabilidade do projeto jovem de futuro

Abstract

This Master Degree Dissertation has the purpose to investigate the implementation of Minas Gerais’ section of the Rede Jovem de Futuro Project, realized through a partnership between the Instituto Unibanco and the Secretaria de Educação de Minas Gerais for the benefit of 20 public high schools in Minas Gerais State. The Rede Jovem de Futuro Project aims to ensure the sustainability of the activities developed by those schools during the implementation of the Jovem de Futuro Project, which was realized from 2008 to 2010 also by Instituto Unibanco through a partnership with Secretaria de Educação de Minas Gerais. The Jovem de Futuro Project offers to Public Secondary Schools support in order to enable them to develop a plan with actions to improve significantly the students’ performance and decrease the dropout rates. Considering that the Jovem de Futuro Project is being implemented as a public policy for education in five Brazilian states (Ceará, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, and Piauí), it is urgent that the Rede Jovem de Futuro Project proves itself to be able to achieve its objective. Therefore, those states schools could participate in the Rede Jovem de Futuro Project after the Jovem de Futuro Project three years cycle to be completed. Twenty school managers of 13 different schools that are currently participating in the Rede Jovem de Futuro Project in Minas Gerais were interviewed. It was found, among other things, that the Rede Jovem de Futuro Project has not been decisive for schools to maintain the practices developed and implemented during the implementation of the Jovem de Futuro Project. The research’s data were analyzed and used in the creation of an Educational Action Plan that proposes strategic and operational revisions in the Rede Jovem de Futuro Project, in order to make it more effective and ensure the continuity of the activities that took place during the Jovem de Futuro Project and, consequently, the sustainability of the results achieved by the project.