Abandono escolar no Centro Cearense de Idiomas Unidade Conjunto Ceará: explorando as principais causas

Abstract

This thesis was developed within the scope of the Professional Graduate Program in Education Management and Assessment (PPGP), Center for Public Policies and Education Assessment (CAEd) of Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The broad objective of this study was to confront the main causes of educational dropout at Centro Cearense de Idiomas Unidade Conjunto Ceará - CCI CC based on the several actors’ perception. Specifically, we seek (i) to analyze the main causes of educational dropout within the scope of the CCI CC; (ii) to investigate and systematize the actions that have been carried out to reduce such dropout rate in that language center; and (iii) to propose, through the results obtained during the investigation, an action plan aiming to progressively mitigate educational dropout by seeking ways to retain students in the language center. To achieve these goals, qualitative research was used as a methodology. For this purpose, interviews were conducted based on a semi-structured set of questions asked to the language teachers and questionnaires were applied to the directors of partner schools, CCI CC students and former students. The interviews and questionnaires were applied online due to the pandemic of Covid-19, which imposed social distancing. The Educational Action Plan was prepared based on document analysis, school data and several authors who discuss the educational dropout from their own perceptions: Finn (1989), Paes de Barros et al. (2017), Rumberger and Lim (2008), Rumberger and Rotermund (2012), Santos and Albuquerque (2019), Silva Filho and Lima Araújo (2017) and Soares et al. (2015), among others. Actually this work intended to open a pragmatic analysis on the growing demand for more efficient ways to face educational dropout