O Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profissional com a Educação Básica na Modalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (PROEJA) em um Centro Estadual de Educação Profissional: evasão e remanescência

Abstract

This work consists of a qualitative and quantitative research and aims to analyze the main aspects of the implementation, progress and the PROEJA (The Program of Professional Education Integrated with Basic Education on the Modality of Youth and Adult Education) present condition, in a Professional Education State Center, in order to discover why the Program failure is specifically caused by school leaving and, also, the causes of persistence among the remaining students. Briefly, the methodological approach used as basis of analysis method from social sciences – the dialectical method – gives a theoretical reference thru the historical materialism. The methodological procedures executed include documentary research, bibliographical and empirical (questionnaires and interviews). The applied questionnaire was focused on PROEJA teachers and remaining students, while interviews were carried out with the full universe of students, including leavers, and the principals. Among other considerations, we set the urgency to define and implement public policies that promote best supply conditions and students' permanence, expanding and ensuring educational quality for the warranty of a significant process. As a paradox, we noticed certain distortions - ideal and concrete - what predicts and defines the institutional document as the professional profile for the students that end the course, rather than what the students think about their educational path, more specifically on whether or not feeling prepared to assume the roles or specific tasks in the working area. The evasion causes are possibly the most diverse. We emphasize that exclusionary processes gain different reasons and all of them provoke school leaving, if they must work, take care of the family or to satisfy their own needs. Therefore, the lack of help for transport, their commitments to family and work, the location of the institution, normally are near their homes but have only few options of courses that should provide quality education , may lead to their disinterest and, consequently, early school leaving.