Scholar dropping out in the 1st grade in high school: the case in Joaçaba, Santa Catarina

Abstract

This article is the result of the research that investigates political and pedagogical actions related to the scholar dropping out of the 1st grade of the High School in the city of Joaçaba, Santa Catarina. The research deals with how the scholar drop out is handled. The qualitative/quantitative approach considers the existence of the dynamic between objective reality and subjective subject, involving data collection from GERED and from scholar institutions, interviews and analyses. The results point to a scenery that needs public policies of structural changes and new views and actions on scholar institutions, teachers’ formation, attention to the youth and to infrastructure and everybody’s permanent modernization to the development of education of and with social quality.