O abandono escolar dos alunos de ensino médio da Escola Maria Conceição de Araújo - Aranaú-Acaraú-CE.

Abstract

The present dissertation was developed as a requirement by the Professional Master Course in Management and Evaluation of the Education (PPGP) in the Center of Public Policies and Evaluation of the Education at Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The studied management case discussed the main factors that caused school dropout in Maria Conceição de Araújo High School / Aranaú / CE. Data from the Integrated School Management System of the Secretariat of Education of Ceará (SIGE-ESCOLA) show that, in 2016, the most critical year from 2015 - 2017, period being studied, 54 students out of 402 enrolled in this school dropped out, exceeding the regional (CREDE 3), state and national averages. Given what has been exposed, we have as an investigative question: What intra and extra-school factors are determining factors for the dropout of Maria Conceição de Araújo High School students? The general objective of this paper is to present and analyze the internal and external factors that influence young people's decision to drop out of school, as well as to propose an Educational Action Plan (PAE) in order to decrease school dropout rates. The research and theoretical discussion about school dropout were based on the works of: Castelar et al. (2012), Forgiarini and Sousa (2001), Krawczyk (2011), Patto (1999), Santos (2017), Soares et al. (2015), among others. The adopted methodology consisted of a qualitative research, through a case study.For this, the study used a questionnaire for students with grade-age distortion of one or more years and also for all other students in the school as well. In addition to selfadministered questionnaires, in which managers, four teachers and four school counselors participated. These servers were chosen because they represent school management, classroom management, and the School Board segments. It stands out the professional experience of the author in the school coordination who realized that the dropout in the studied school increases while the state average decreases. Purposeful actions, such as the active listening of students at risk of dropping out by school counselors and the adoption of students with learning disabilities by “good school” students, among others, are in PAE as a suggestion to combat dropout. It is believed that work such as this may contribute to public policies to reduce school dropout and, consequently, inequalities in local and general society.