Contradições entre políticas de investimento, expansão de vagas e evasão na Educação Profissional.

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Paulo Roberto da
• Orientador(a): Ferri, Lúcia Maria Gomes Correa
• Banca de defesa: Schmidt, Ivone Tambelli , Hashimoto, Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Oeste Paulista
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Educação
• Departamento: Ciências Humanas
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ensino profissional; Tecnólogos - Formação; Evasão escolar
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Professional Education; Technologists - Formation; School evasion
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://bdtd.unoeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/902

This paper aims to display a study conducted at Faculdade de Tecnologia de Presidente Prudente, a school which belongs to Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza, a Department of Economic Development, Science and Technologys autarchy, pertaining to State of São Paulos government. The educational facility where the research was conducted, therefore, is a public institution and offers courses in technology field. As Higher Education vacancy grows bigger by the day, particularly in technological areas, there has been a significantly increase of numbers concerning school evasion. The goal of the present research is to study the reasons why this increase happens, which psychological aspects may interfere in this process, and what are the school board s, the teachers and the dropouts point of views about the issue. This is a qualitative and quantitative case study research held at a public institution of Higher Education on Technology in the city of Presidente Prudente. The methodological procedures used were documentary research with the analysis of dropouts school records, course plans offered by the Instituição de Educação Superior (IES) (Higher Education Institution) and the Legislation on Professional Education in Brazil, followed by interview with school board (management and coordination), dropout students and teachers. Through the Discourse of the Collective Subject (DCS) proposed by Lefevre, Lefevre, in order to know the causes of academic dropout in higher education in technology. Such understanding will subsidize the managers of the teaching unit, revisit their teaching procedures and will guide the adoption of policies and actions that will help minimize the dropout numbers indicators.