Evasão no ensino superior: o caso do Bacharelado Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This research describes and analyses the school evasion at the Interdisciplinary Bachelor Degree in Human Sciences from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Besides, this study aims to propose educational actions, with the objective to decrease that evasion. Firstly, there are described the data about the students, during the period between 2010 and 2017, especially about the ones who gave up on the course before the degree. For the analysis, it was focused on the 2013 generation. The study identifies the factors related to the evasion, through the students' profiles and academic paths, based on bibliography research. Finally, there are proposed measures to help the managers and the coordination to understand this phenomena, in a way that it is possible to reduce this reality. Therefore, it was made a case study, through qualitative methodology, establishing, as evidence sources, the descriptive study of the students' trajectories. As a result, the data produced during this research show the existence of students evasion at a significant part of this course. Besides, as hypotheses, it is thought that this reality may be related to the course chose and a lack of knowledge, by the university, related to the evasion motivations. Furthermore, based on this study, it was proposed an Educational Action Plan, constituted by three actions. The two first actions try to diminish the fragilities presented during the course choosing. The third one has the objective of promoting an institutional knowledge about the students profile and their motivations for the course evasion.