Ausência prolongada dos alunos da EJA semipresencial: um desafio à gestão

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed under the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The case of management refers to the prolonged absence of students registered in Secondary Education, in the form of Youth and Adult Education (EJA), semi-presential offered by the State Continuing Education Center, CESEC "Júlio Martins Ferreira", from the State of Minas Gerais , municipality of Unaí. The research has the following guiding question: What are the challenges posed to the management team regarding the prolonged absence of high school students registered in CESEC "Júlio Martins Ferreira" in the period 2014-2105? Its relevance lies in the fact that it is necessary to know the causes of this problem to propose interventions linked to public policies and school management in order to solve it as much as possible. The objectives defined for this study were: to describe the challenges posed to the management team in minimizing the problem; to analyze the culture of the school regarding the integration aspects of the students in the school community and the aspects that contribute to their non-continuity, and, finally, to propose measures aimed at the integration of students registered in said CESEC in order to expand the index of course at this level of education. It was assumed hypothetically that the reasons that lead students to prolong absence are social, personal and institutional, so that, to confirm or refute these hypotheses, methodological procedures of two types were used: exploratory and descriptive research, considering as a technique of data collection and analysis, quantitative and qualitative aspects, in an observational and statistical approach. The documentary analysis was done taking as sources of information the records in the books of the institution's secretariat, teachers' journals, the SIMADE - Mineiro System of School Administration records and as an extension of research instruments, the conduct of semi-structured interviews with the manager and pedagogical team, and focus groups with the students and teachers of the institution. In this way, it was possible to reach three specific points: a) the factors that contribute to the students' prolonged absence, which leads to evasion and abandonment, b) the importance of the management team's performance in order to facilitate the integration of the student in the school environment - creation of a bond of belonging and, c) the possibility of applying measures in the educational and administrative field of the institution with the purpose of improving the attendance, the quality of the offered education and to increase the student certification index.