Um estudo sobre as causas da evasão escolar no ensino médio noturno de um colégio localizado no município de Paranavaí

Abstract

This work intends to investigate the problem of school dropout located in the municipality of Paranavaí, in the State of Paraná. Considered to be one of the major problems of Brazilian public education, school dropout is the object of studies that seek to determine the factors that contribute to high dropout rates. Several studies indicate that it is in high school where the highest rates occur, with night school where school dropout reaches alarming numbers, which evidences this serious obstacle to the consolidation of Brazilian education as democratic, inclusive and which promotes citizenship and social inclusion. Among the researched, two main lines study the problem from two different perspectives: the out of school problems that occur in the social environment, and problems in school, which occurs especially in the school space. Therefore, in the city of Paranavaí, in the state of Paraná, a state college was chosen as a field of investigation for the phenomenon of evasion, since high levels of evasion were observed in a high school night class.