Evasão no ensino superior: perspectivas dos evadidos dos cursos de engenharia da UTFPR campus Campo Mourão na construção de uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

The occurrence of Dropout in Higher Education is a problem that has affected educational institutions around the world. The abandonment of courses, by students, represents not only academic losses, but also economic and social, both for institutions and for the dropout students themselves. Facing this very important theme, this research aims to propose a set of actions to confront the situation of dropout, based on registrations from 2016 until 2020, in graduate courses of Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Food Engineering and Electronic Engineering at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná - Campus Campo Mourão. The research was structured from a qualitative approach, elaborated in the form of a descriptive research and based on a case study. Data collection took place from institutional documents and the application of online questionnaires to students who had dropped out of the analyzed courses. With the information collected from the research subjects, it was possible to identify the main characteristics related to the socioeconomic profile of the students, as well as the factors that were most relevant to the decision to drop out. From the results by this study, a set of actions was structured that enabled a mapping of reasons dropout in the context of the researched institution. In the context of the suggested interventions, highlights the proposal to adapt the procedure for leaves courses and external transfer, which makes up the Technical and Technological Product linked to this research. It is expected that the formulated proposal will potentially favor the creation of a database and information on the reasons that lead to dropouts, so that the university can articulate effective policies to combat this problem and, perhaps, consolidate the actions of student permanence and the reduction of academic dropout rates.