Evasão de estudantes em cursos de licenciatura do Instituto Federal de São Paulo

Abstract

This research had as purpose studying, by the sociological perspective, the undergraduate teaching licensure student dropout, constructed around the Bourdieu’s theoretical reference. The research was performed in the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo, in São Paulo’s Campus. This study will not only contribute to the academic scientific knowledge, but also will improve the understanding about the reality and the reason for Brazilian’s student dropouts on undergraduate degree’s courses. The initial hypothesis is the dropout should be bigger in natural sciences when compared with social sciences, and it also should grow for socioeconomic disadvantaged students. To confirm that, at first, a data base was built based on the documents saved in the Institute’s academic system, both digital and physical, and filtering the time period including the newcomers students since 2015 first semester until the 2018 last semester. After that, it was identified the student’s socioeconomic profile composed by their age (during ingression), gender, race, private or public schooling, and it was correlated with the student’s dropout. At the end of this research, it was confirmed that the institute has a high level of student dropout, however, it has no difference between natural or social sciences, and it is more present on disadvantaged students: regarding their socioeconomic conditions, access to qualified basic education and in proper age. Another reason that composes the total dropouts are the cancel requests, which are made mainly by the best grades students, whom has the possibility to choose between other institutions and courses