Evasão escolar: motivações para retornar aos estudos na modalidade de educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research work focus on the discussion and analysis of the school dropout of the individuals who took regular elementary and junior high school and the reasons that made them go back to the classroom, now following the young and adult‟s education (EJA) system. As it comes to what composes its theoretical basis, we discussed the conceptions of school dropout, the young and adult‟s education historical context, since the educational movements which started in the 50‟s, passing through the public policies that contributed to the EJA recognition as a type of education. The current research was carried out through a field research, document research, being qualitative in its kind, so that it has developed a case study in order to do so, thus observing and using quantitative data as well. We chose the interview and the participants‟ questionnaire as our techniques to collect data, in order to get to know the students‟ profiles better and obtain their testimonials while students who had left elementary and junior high school, and nowadays as participants of the youth and adult‟s education. We adopted Bardin(1977)‟s content analysis so as to analyze the results, and thus we found out that school dropout is not only connected to social matters, but also related to other factors, such as economic, political, psychological and even emotional ones, thus understanding the resignification of studying for those who once left elementary and junior high school and went back to school in the young and adult‟s education system.