Fatores que influenciam a evasão na universidade pública - o caso do curso de Zootecnia na Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The studies on evasion in higher education social, psychological, political, administrative, economic, as well as pedagogical factors. It is observed that numerous authors have highlighted the difficulties of access and permanence in higher education in Brazil, despite the educational policies implemented in 2003-2015 having created several affirmative action programs, aimed at expanding the access and permanence of a layer of the population historically excluded in public universities. After August 2016 there was a decrease in these actions as a government proposal, thus leaving a significant contingent outside the university and a group of students who cannot stay there and complete their undergraduate course. The study delimited the analysis of this phenomenon in the Animal Science course at UFRRJ, as it is a historical course of the institution, due to the lines of research of the PPGEA and because this course presents an expressive dropout. The general objective of the study was to characterize the causes of student dropout in the Bachelor of Animal Science course at UFRRJ, from 2013 to 2018. The first chapter presented a bibliographic survey about studies on school dropout in Brazil, seeking to characterize the issue of research, deepening studies in higher education, in undergraduate courses, through the following authors: Cislaghi (2008), Costa (2009), Cunha and Morosini (2013), Gisi (2006), Peixoto et al. (2000), Polydoro (2000), Silva Filho (2007), among others. Also in chapter one, the methodology used in this study was described, based on the following authors: Lakatos and Marconi (2007) and Gamboa (2013). The methodology used was theoretical and documentary research. In the other chapters, the analysis of official UFRRJ documents was carried out, seeking to characterize the UFRRJ's Animal Science course historically, legally and academically. Next, the phenomenon of dropout in the Undergraduate Course in Animal Science at UFRRJ was characterized, following the class enrolled in 2013.1 until its conclusion in 2018.1. The limitation of the study was due to the difficulties of conducting field research in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The results showed that the course has a high level of dropout. This dissertation listed possible causes of this phenomenon and proposals for overcoming it based on several studies on the subject.