Motivadores para ingresso, permanência e conclusão de dois cursos técnicos subsequentes no IFPR Campus Curitiba

Abstract

This research had as objective to identify which are the drivers for search, continuity and conclusion of two subsequent technical courses of IFPR Campus Curitiba with the highest and smaller index of graduates. Through semi-structured interviews addressed by an itinerary previously elaborated, it was looked for to draw a profile of the students of subsequent technical courses, to identify which were the reasons that lead them to the choice of a subsequent technical course and which are their expectations regarding the course, to understand which are their main obstacles and which strategies are used to get to cross them and, above all, to know and to understand the drivers so they stay and conclude the courses in spite of the difficulties. The researched subjects were 20 students in the last semester of the courses of Buccal Health and Electro Mechanics of IFPR Campus Curitiba. The analyses were accomplished considering the historical, social and political context in which the subjects are inserted and starting from the knowledge and understanding of the transformations happened in the education legislation and the reasons that lead to these transformations. The structural duality of the Brazilian education is understood as characteristic of a society divided in classes and ruled by the capitalist methods of production, which finds in the education, particularly in the professional training, the necessary ways to perpetuate. However we observed that, independently of the historical moment, there are fights in the attempt of attributing to the education a character of human and integral education, without the exclusive purpose of training workforce. So the professional education field is observed as a territory of disputes and construction of new possibilities. In the data analysis, we can understand that the reasons that lead the students to seek subsequent technical courses are the relocation possibility in the job market, the professional prestige in careers that need specific formation, the impossibility of being admitted at the university or still the significance that they give to the school in the process of human development. The main obstacles are mainly the learning difficulty and the difficulty in matching work and study, besides family aspects. Overall, the students win the obstacles and conclude the courses, because they find institutional and family incentives, besides the need of an improved job placement. When asked about the reasons that lead their friends to give up, the interviewed students pointed the same difficulties that they face and strongly attributed the choice of evasion to individual aspects, not mentioning social ones.