Evasão discente em cursos de licenciatura da UFPB

Abstract

The Evasion in higher education has been a worrying feature of education, forming na integral part of failure. The presente research had as general objective, to analyse the causes that have been contributing to evasion in undergraduate courses at UFPB. And its specifiic objetives were: to constructo a historical scenario of UFPB courses; to analyze the specifics of undergraduate courses, as teacher training courses; to identify academic and personal reasons that justified the students’ avoidance of undergraduate courses. It is a result os participation in the Institucional Program scholarships and scientific Initiations (PIBIC), entitled “Evasion of Young People ans adults in Higher Education: Contributions to debate and applications”. Qualitative research with exploratory methodology was chosen in order to understand the reality of escaped students, studyingtheir particularities and individual experiences throu the analysis of the content of the inteciew responses. The analysis was done starting from the responses of students who had evade from undergraduate courses at UFPB. There were seven people, aged between 17 and 25 years, there of the female gender and four of the male gender, who were sdudying between the morning and afternoon shifts. The research revealed that authors found causes of evasion by economic, personal ans academic factors, however, the results of the interviews unanimously showed the influence of personal motives as a determining factor for evasion.