Análise da evasão no curso superior de engenharia têxtil da UTFPR campus Apucarana

Abstract

University Desertion is a phenomenon that is present in all higher education institutions and has been studied in a systematic way since 1995, after the creation of the special commission for the study of dropout, established by Sisu/MEC. Generally speaking, studies on dropout are scarce in relation to the number of undergraduate courses and different contexts existing in Brazil, since the literature in the area indicates that the causes of dropout of higher education students refer as much to social and personal issues as institutional issues or even the combination of it all. As this is a major loss for the educational sector and since there is no publication on dropouts in the Textile Engineering course to date, based on the collection and quantitative and qualitative analysis of data, the main reasons for causing of the evasion of students from the course. Students who were absent from the Textile Engineering course at the Apucarana campus were characterized, and the results of applying the questionnaire to regular students of the course were analyzed in an attempt to identify possible causes of evasion and points for improvement in the pedagogical project.