A evasão no curso de Ciências Sociais da UFU: aproximações e contrapontos do fenômeno em relação às definições e formas de mensuração vigentes

Abstract

This study aims to present a discussion about evasion in federal university education to demonstrate how the definitions brought by official documents and academic research in the area present this phenomenon. To investigate the theme, the following question is asked: do the definitions and current ways of measuring evasion adequately respond to the reality of graduate students in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU)? With a theoretical basis in the definitions of evasion, measurement, public policies, formulation and evaluation, as well as in the proposals for confrontation, this text points out some emergencies of the phenomenon glimpsed in a study with evaded students from the Social Sciences course at UFU. Considering that this study aims to understand a phenomenon of human experience, the methodology that performs it includes bibliographic, documental and field research, which reveal that evasion covers different causes and reduces it to the loss of a bond, it can only limit and simplify its importance. The study, then, presents the analysis of the object in question, in order to compare it with the definitions and current ways of measuring abandonment, in order to provoke discussions and actions that give new meaning to the policies to deal with this phenomenon.