Práticas de gestão na educação superior: um olhar sobre a retenção e a evasão nas licenciaturas do centro de ciências humanas, sociais e agrárias da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

The present master's thesis had, as main objectives, to analyze the main management practices that contribute or can contribute to the monitoring of the retention/dropout of students from the Degree in Pedagogy and Degree in Agricultural Sciences and to propose suggestions of good practices that make it possible to monitor and minimize these indices, in the face-to-face modality, at the Center for Social and Agricultural Human Sciences (CCHSA), at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), as well as to generate significant information, at the Institutional level, that enable the improvement of Control functions Academic and assist in decision-making by management teams and the academic community. For that, an applied research was carried out, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, using secondary data from the Census of Higher Education and the Integrated System of Management of Academic Activities. It was characterized as an exploratory, explanatory and descriptive research, using documental, bibliographical and questionnaire studies as a data collection technique. In addition, during the documentary analyses, the historical reconstruction of the Vidal de Negreiros Agricultural College, linked to the Federal University of Paraíba, was carried out, giving rise to Campus III in the city of Bananeiras/PB. in a study that describes its trajectory, starting from the Technical courses to the Undergraduate courses. The information obtained from the data collection was analyzed using Bardin's (2016) content analysis. For a better understanding, the research was divided into introduction, methodological path, theoretical foundation and data analysis. To better monitor retention and evasion, actions were carried out aimed at accessing information, through queries to reports in internal systems, dialogues with coordination in meetings and collegiate bodies. The general results point to some important elements to support analysis and reflections by the academic and administrative management of the CCHSA and UFPB: the consolidation of student assistance, from the beginning to the conclusion; the strengthening of support networks for vulnerable students and freshmen; and reinforcement of institutional links can contribute to the control, follow-up and monitoring of student retention, minimizing the possibility of evasion.