A rede federal de educação profissional e tecnológica no Brasil: uma proposta para diminuição da taxa de reprovação no Instituto Federal do Paraná (IFPR) – Campus Ivaiporã

Abstract

This master´s dissertation was developed in the postgraduate studies in management and evaluation of the public school Program – CAEd/UFJF (Public Politics and Evaluation of the Education Center - Juiz de Fora Federal University) and have as general purpose offer actions that attend the necessity to reduce the school failure in the high school level in the professional education in the public institutions, in special on the context of Parana´s Federal Institute (IFPR). Therefore was effected an analysis limited to the campus that is deployed since 2009 at Ivaiporã, city with 32.000 inhabitants, which the predominant economic activities are agricultural and livestock and it is located in central part of the Paraná State. This region has shown high index of school failure, mostly in the first year of the high school integrated with the professional education. The methodology used was the study in qualitative case, with collect of data and document analysis of the academic secretary of the campus and official documents of the IFPR and bibliographic researches and interview with managers, teachers and students of the campus. This study was elaborate based on theoretical references about the history of the professional education in Brazil as Aranha (2006), Cury (2008) and Brazilian Educational Legislation of the school dualism with Kuenzer (2012) and Cunha (2000) of the school failure with Paro (2003) of the government policies and the educational investments. The results of this research shows that the school failure in this institution is related to a number of factors, as the relationship between teacher-student, the teaching methodologies and evaluation, the absence of the habit to study of the students, difficulties and discrepancy of learning and family factors as economic-social or psychological that must be addressed, aiming to improve the school income of the students. At the end this research features a proposal of educational intervention guided in four essential actions to increase the school success, in order to decrease the rates of school failures and improve the quality of the education in the IFPR.