A saída de estudantes antes da conclusão do ensino médio integrado em uma escola de educação profissional no Ceará

Abstract

This dissertation was developed under the Program of Professional Postgraduate in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Public Policies Center and Education Evaluation (CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The management case studied analyzed the factors that contribute to the exit of students from one of the State Schools of Professional Education (EEEP) located in the city of Fortaleza, named EEEP Juarez Távora, based on the perception of students, teachers and managers of that school. The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the factors that have caused students' disapproval and disinterest in order to propose a plan of action with alternatives that increase the number of students at the end of the 3-year cycle. Having as specific objectives to analyze data on the school flow of the studied school, understand the factors that have contributed to students leaving school before completing the threeyear cycle and propose actions that contribute to the reduction of school failure and encourage students to stay in school. In order to understand, a contextualization was carried out on professional education in Brazil and in the state of Ceará. Bibliographic and field researches were adopted as a research tool. Semi-structured interviews with teachers, school director and school coordinator and questionnaires with students and alumni of the school were used as research techniques. The analysis of the research data was based on relevant authors in the educational field, such as Freire (1997), Libâneo (1990), Frigotto (2010), Paro (2004) and Perrenoud (2001). The research showed that there are internal factors that contribute to the exit of students before the end of the cycle, the main ones being the disapproval, the exclusionary pedagogical practices and the lack of interest of students in the chosen course. The final part of this work contains an Educational Action Plan that brings a set of actions to be conducted by the school management with the participation of the whole school community, aiming to reduce the number of students requesting transfer of the school which integrate high school and professional preparation. The actions were designed to verify the level of learning of students entering school and identify learning distortions, to implement a schedule of continuing teacher training at school, to rethink the evaluation process implemented at the school, to create a remedial class project and to propose improvements in the technical courses offered by the school.