O FENÔMENO DA EVASÃO DISCENTE EM PROGRAMAS DE PÓS GRADUAÇÃO STRICTO SENSU EM CIÊNCIA DA INFORMAÇÃO DA REGIÃO NORDESTE DO BRASIL

Abstract

The research approaches stricto sensu graduate student dropout and its main objective is to analyze the motifs of graduate student dropout in Stricto Sensu Graduate Programs in Information Science in the Brazilian Northeast from 2017 to 2021. Specifically, it is searched to trace a panorama of stricto sensu graduate student dropout in Graduate Programs in Information Science in the Northeast Region of Brazil in the proposed period. It also aims to identify and to characterize the investigation participants as well as to investigate the motivations of this phenomena, enabling the obtaining of recent data. In order to reach the announced pretension, it is adopted a bibliographic research of descriptive level with mixed nature (qualitative and quantitative), developed from the application of an electronic questionnaire directed to the Course Secretariats and to the dropout students in the analyzed period, coping with multiple causes of rupture in cademic relation. The obtained results coming fromthe investigation developed at the Graduate Programs in Information Science of Bahia, Paraíba and Pernambuco pointed that: from the production survey about the theme, literature is scarce; most of dropout students is feminine. Also, there are two big causes of dropouts. The first one is of voluntary nature, related to personal questions, such as difficulty in conciliation of academic activities and labor and home routine, and maternity. The second cause is related to compulsory processes of course shutdown, in which it is evidenced the questions linked to the Program, such as difficulty in accompanying the used methodology, as well as the erosion of the relationship between counselor and mentee. It is concluded that studies and debates about the theme are necessary, especially the dialogic insertion as analysis agenda of the student trajectory in Graduate Courses, in order to minimize conflicts that cause prejudices to the involved ones (program and students) added to the action of Programs to comprehend the dropout phenomena as a question which brings reflexes in the whole educational process of higher education.