Evasão no ensino superior: uma pesquisa exploratória

Abstract

In the mid-1990s, with the work carried out by the Special Commission for Studies on Evasion in Brazilian Public Universities of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), the topic of evasion in schools and universities began to draw more attention and concern in Brazil . Over time, entry and stay in a higher education institution has been facilitated by government actions, based on the understanding of their role in professional and citizen education; actions such as Decree nº 7,234 / 2010, where the National Student Assistance Plan (PNAEs) was instituted, were vital for the increase of university students in the country. However, due to the evasion problem caused by several reasons, Brazilian higher education was unable to avoid the exclusion of a significant group of students; thus, in order to favor the students' permanence in the academic space, researches that make it possible to know this evasion process are necessary. This work aims to address the issue of dropout in higher education, analyzing in an exploratory way the probable causes of this phenomenon in recent years. This is a qualitative research, with the Brazilian public university as its study universe, more specifically UNIPAMPA in the period after 2010; firstly, in the literature review, we sought to identify the multiple dimensions that influence evasion in higher education, understanding evasion in the context of UNIPAMPA, reflecting and questioning the possible causes of this phenomenon.