Permanency and school dropout in professional education: reflecting on some of their motivators

• Autor(a) principal: Zanin, Alexsandra Joelma Dal Pizzol Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Garcia, Nilson Marcos Dias
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trabalho & Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/trabedu/article/view/12617
• topic: Permanência e Abandono escolar; Educação Profissional e Tecnológica; Estudantes Trabalhadores; Permanency and School Dropout; Professional Education; Worker Students.

It is presented the results of research that aimed to analyze, from the point of view of students and ex-students of concomitant and subsequent technical courses in industrial area, the motivations and reasons that justify its permanence or abandonment to their courses. Based on the conception of the work as a central category and educational principle, established, also, dialogue with others authors from different strands and theoretical conceptions aiming at deepening on the theoretical and ideological conflicts that permeate discussions on the school permanency or dropout. From a qualitative exploratory approach, the research involved workers students of a federal institution with campi in Joinville and Jaraguá do Sul, in Santa Catarina. The results signaled there is a complex and contradictory relationship between the motivators of abandonment and permanence, sometimes appearing as motivators to stay and other times as drivers of abandonment, emphasizing relationships established between teachers and students and between work, study and family. It also pointed out that the current policies of support for permanence are not recognized by the students, nor identified as essential for their permanence in school.