Educação de Jovens e Adultos: perspectivas e evasão no município de Cáceres-MT

Abstract

This survey entitled Education of Young and Adult Students: Perspectives and school dropout in the city of Cáceres-MT is linked to a Line of Research Educational Institution, Organization and Management from the Area of Concentration: Educational and Teacher Education Program of Master in Education of the UNOESTE in Presidente Prudente-SP. The participants of our study were twenty school dropout students from the period of 2000 to 2009, randomly selected to participate in the interviews. All of them belong to the municipal school called Isabel Campos, situated in Cáceres-MT. the choice of this school among the others was due to its strategic geographical location This school receives students from urban and rural areas. The research was aimed at understanding the expectations of students when they start the Education of Young and Adult Students (EJA) and the diagnosis of the causes of the high dropout rate in the first series of this type of education. The data from the interviews followed a script whose items allowed the analysis and the understanding of the prospects for entry and the reasons that led to truancy. Official documents of the Municipal Education and Culture and of the School analyzed recorded the municipal school life of the EJA students were also analyzed. The data collected for analysis were supported and grounded of the content analysis, as indicated by Maria Laura P. B. Franco (2008). The research followed the qualitative approach and specific features of the case studies. The results showed a gradual decline in the offer of EJA in the city studied and the job was considered the main reason for the return and the dropout of young and adult students