Políticas educacionais de formação profissional: fatores que contribuíram para a evasão ou para a permanência de estudantes do curso técnico subsequente em logística oferecido pelo IFTO/Rede e-Tec Brasil

Abstract

This paper reports a case study that sought to identify and understand the factors that contributed to the students to dropout from a professional education course. The researched course was the Technical Logistics Course, 2014-2015 cycle, offered by IFTO in the distance learning mode under the Rede e-Tec Brazil/Pronatec. It is an explanatory-descriptive research that aims to give its contribution by offering subsidies so that confronting strategies can be developed to solve the problem. The secondary objectives of this study consisted in: providing the dropout rate; identifying the factors that have led students to dropout; analyzing, reflecting and discussing all the data obtained and presenting the diagnosis and conclusion of the course droupout. The research was conducted on the population directly related to the course and place in case. The response to the online surveys and personal interviews were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. The results showed that personal factors were predominant, however, internal and external factors also influenced on the behavior. Thus, it was concluded that the dropout is a multifaceted phenomenon, that involves several issues, interrelated and therefore quite complex. Specific suggestions were made in order to provide strategies to encourage permanency and minimize dropouts from the courses, acknowledging that, in its complexity, the dropout phenomenon demands constant studies and permanent actions to confront the problem.