Evasão escolar na educação de jovens e adultos: um estudo a partir da Escola Monsenhor Gilberto Vaz Sampaio I – Varzedo/Ba

Abstract

In recent decades the Brazilian education experiences a scenario of educational change and policies created or implemented in order to repair a deficit in the quality of public education. In this scenario it is the education of young and adults-EJA, educational modality that offers high levels of evasion. Given this reality, the present investigation was carried out on the basis of a quantitative and qualitative approach to research, with use of case study methodology, and aimed to analyze the factors responsible for truancy in young and adults education in school Monsenhor Gilberto Vaz Sampaio I-Varzedo/BA. For data collection, the questionnaire and the interview were used as research instruments. The questionnaire consisted of structured questions, multiple choice and the interview was a semi-structured character. In the questionnaire counted 50 participants, these former students enrolled in adult education from this school in the years 2014 and 2015. Of this total only 14 participated in the second stage of this research, namely the interview application, and selected those students more likely to escape and escaped more than three times. For the Foundation of this work were used documents of the Brazilian legal system, as well as various authors, like: Brazil, Caporalini, Capucho, Di Pierro, Gadotti Chiraldelli, Soares, Soeiro. The results of this research indicate that students who evade the EJA in the investigated schools are mostly male; very young and the urban area and among the reasons that contributed to the escape has issues of economic, family, personal and school as: the need to work, lack of interest and lack of motivation at school, difficulty in learning some content, health problems, need to help in household chores, bullying situation and other reasons. On the other hand, most of the young adults and dropouts found that the school catered to your interests, including as to the contents worked and that there were in good interpersonal relationship. From the analysis of the data collected were drawn political strategies, institutional and pedagogical, focusing essentially on resignification of the school curriculum and in the continuing education of teachers of young and adults education, aiming to contribute to the reduction of dropout indicators in school that served as a reference for this investigation.