A não permanência na educação de jovens e adultos semipresencial em um Centro Estadual de Educação Continuada (CESEC) do estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present dissertation was conducted in the context of the Professional Postgraduate Program in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The study addressed the non-permanence rates of students enrolled in the Adult and Youth Education Modality (EJA) in a state school in Minas Gerais. This institution is known as the State Continuing Education Center (CESEC). In this approach, it was analyzed in this work how the management in this school can contribute to identifying factors that lead students to drop out school. This work seeks to encourage students to attend classes and to raise the completion rates in this modality. The management case studied had as main aim the analysis of the management challenges faced by students from the final years of EJA Elementary School in the context of a Cesec in Minas Gerais, in order to propose measures aimed at reducing high rates of non-permanence in the institution. The hypothesis assumed in the study was that most of the student workers who attend the Cesec are in a great hurry to complete the stage according to informal conversations. Despite the fact they wish to complete the course immediately, they do not persist in attending the classes regularly and, consequently, delay the course completion. The additional aims of this study were to describe the specificities related to the non-permanence of the EJA students in the final years of Elementary School, to analyze the reasons that led students not to complete the course and the greatest difficulties faced by the ones who continued their studies. In order to do so, this qualitative research used as the methodological tools an interview with the learning teacher-tutors and a semi-structured questionnaire with the students. Based on the data analysis, it was possible to verify that the need to work is the most apparent reason for school dropout. The study presented an Educational Action Plan which proposed actions whose aim is to help the management minimize the problem. One of the aims is to obtain a gradual decrease in the non-permanence rates in the blended EJA by innovations and constant pedagogical planning.