Investigando a evasão dos alunos na educação de jovens e adultos (EJA) na modalidade de ensino semipresencial

Abstract

The research was carried out within the scope of Professional Master’s Program in Education Management and Assessment of Public Policies and Education Assessment Center of Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The management case regards student evasion from adult education, blended modality, in the Center for Continuous Education “Doralice Alves Rodrigues” (CESEC), located in the municipality of Patrocínio, Minas Gerais state. The main point presented herein is how could the management team responsible for the Center for Continuous Education “Doralice Alves Rodrigues” contribute to minimize student evasion rates from adult education? The protection of the right to education, in the scope of adult education, is the result of unwavering fight through Brazil’s educational history, being legitimized as a public policy since the federal constitution from 1988. The research raises some considerations on illiteracy, school evasion and desertion in Brazil. Aiming to answer this question the research has specific objectives: Describe the focused CESEC and evasion rates from 2012-2017; analyze the school’s management team’s, teacher’s and secretary’s perspective on the reasons for school evasion and, propose actions aimed to minimize this rates. Thus, it was carried out a field research at CESEC “Doralice Alves Rodrigues” with nine teachers, manager, supervisor and secretary as the research universe. Thereby, semi structured interviews were carried out with the manager, supervisor and secretary, and questionnaires applied to the teachers aiming to raise information about student evasion from adult education. Data collection was carried out through search on administrative record books of CESEC “Doralice Alves Rodrigues” and on Minas System for School Management. To support the discussion it was committed, beyond the theoretical references, the results from semi structured interviews and questionnaires carried out with educational actors related directly to the institutions work. The information and discussion from this research made possible to draw the Educational Action Plan, with actions to be carried out in the studied CESEC, considering the observation, understanding and the experiences of the professional from the school.