Análise das ações estratégicas de intervenção para permanência estudantil e combate à evasão escolar no curso técnico em Agropecuária do IFPI Campo Maior

Abstract

The new phase of expansion of the Federal Institutes aims to universalise the universal right to education, guaranteeing quality education for all. It is therefore the duty of the State and its educational institutions to offer and ensure the conditions for access, retention, and academic success. Accordingly, educational actions aimed at reducing dropouts and encouraging student retention are organised within the pedagogical, strategic, and financial plan of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI). Based on that, this survey has as its general aim to analyse the strategic intervention actions that ensure the retention of students in the High School Vocational Programme in Agriculture at the IFPI, Campo Maior campus (CACAM). The specific aims of this survey consist of identifying the pedagogical actions directed towards student retention on campus, understanding within the budgetary actions the measures aimed at student retention, discussing the implications of strategic intervention actions for ensuring retention and combating dropout, and developing a cycle of lectures focused on discussing student retention within the IFPI CACAM community. This is a case study with a qualitative approach, which involves document and bibliographic reviews on student retention within Professional and Technological Education (PTE) in the Federal Institutes. The theoretical foundation draws upon the works of Ciavatta (2012, 2019), Freire (1979, 2002, 2016), Gramsci (1982), Rumberger (2004), Tinto (1999), Lahire (1997), Bourdieu (1998) and others to discuss retention, dropout, and PTE. For data generation, semi-structured interviews and closed-ended questionnaires were conducted with staff and students in the Vocational Agriculture High School programme at IFPI CACAM. Content analysis (Bardin, 1977) is used to interpret the generated data, with interpretation employing graphs, figures, tables, percentages, and categorisation as tools to aid the reading of the participants data. An educational product is presented in the form of a lecture cycle addressing student retention in the Agriculture programme at IFPI CACAM. The survey results indicate that a large part of the student retention actions on campus occurs in the pedagogical sphere, specifically focused on teaching work; Student Stipends as a budgetary action combats student dropout, though it is not the decisive factor for some students’ retention at school; the strategic interventions set out in the Access, Admission, Retention, and Success Plan (PAIPE) are not being adequately implemented by the Retention and Success Committee of IFPI CACAM; the Lecture Cycle sought to contribute to the discussion of pedagogical, budgetary, and strategic actions that IFPI CACAM carries out in connection with student retention in Agriculture. Through the results of this study and the application of the proposed educational product, it is hoped to contribute to school retention within the Agriculture programme, as well as to strengthen the democratic policy of student retention across all audiences and programmes of the institution.