School Dropout and Permanence: analyzing perspectives of education workers at the IFSC

Abstract

From the perspective of education workers from several campuses of the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina - IFSC), this paper seeks to analyze the factors that involve school dropout or the permanence of students in Professional and Technological Education (Educação Profissional e Tecnológica - EPT). Developed as a case study from a dialectical perspective, the research, with a qualitative approach, highlighted the different perspectives of workers on the multiple and complex motivators of dropping out or staying at school. It revealed the fragmentation, the individualization, the blaming of its subjects; the existence of specific actions to support permanence and the absence of evaluations and interventions aimed at modifying the dual and excluding structure of EPT.