Percepção dos docentes de uma Universidade Federal sobre evasão dos acadêmicos de enfermagem ao longo de 10 anos

Abstract

The phenomenon of college evasion has been observed in Brazilian high education institutions since 1995 when the Special Studies Committee on Evasion in Public Universities was founded. Since students usually do not receive much information about college life, they tend suffer abruptly from the transition process. It is known that adapting to the academic environment and support from professors are essential since universities should take responsibility as major mediator in the attendance and fulfillment of students throughout their academic careers. In the nursing school on Sinop campus, we can observe high rates of college evasion. With this concern, this study aimed to knowledge the perception of nursing professors from the Federal University of Mato Grosso towards the evasion of students from 2006 to the first semester of 2016. This is an exploratory and descriptive study with qualitative approach performed on 15 nursing professors on Sinop campus. We used predeveloped, recorded and transcribed interviews as an instrument of data collection, respecting all regulatory standards of ethics in human research. The data analysis was conducted according to the analysis techniques for the type of content, which resulted in two categories. The results indicate that professors are usually aware of the withdrawal rates from the nursing school at Federal University of Mato Grosso in Sinop. As a consequence, they have been including in courses active methods and strategies that are aimed to inspire students to participate as active part of the teaching and learning process. With regards to this, one should point the importance of professors as active education agents that have the capacity to develop encouraging and motivational actions. We expect that this study supports other studies on college evasion, providing more evidences of this problem and encouraging alternative changes for the process.