ABSTRACT Key words: Dropout, repetition, scholar exclusion, school quality, General Secondary School, Mozambique. This study is a school-based research into the reasons for dropout and repetition in Mozambique. The research methodology is of a qualitative nature, which enabled the exploration of relevant themes, processes and patterns that have characterized the educational process in Mozambique, especially reasons that led to repetition and dropout, during the period between 1999 and 2005. The main reasons could be found in the whole process of teaching and learning; outdated classroom pedagogy; insufficient student participation and shortage of textbooks or teachers materials; and low teachers salaries. In addition, poverty causes many students to drop out. The main conclusion is that higher levels of repetition and dropout have cost implications, inflating enrolments and adding to total costs without necessarily leading to an improvement in learners’ outcomes. Recommendations include a redefinition of the model of secondary education in accordance with the new demands of the labour market.

Orientador: Nora Rut Krawczyk / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T20:27:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_SoniaSeleneBacalde_D.pdf: 1219539 bytes, checksum: fad35b83d5fe8e770c4ca5c4d6d43e8a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este estudo analisa as dimensões da inclusão social do Programa Bolsa Família - PBF -, principal ação de transferência de renda com condicionalidades instituída pelo governo brasileiro, em outubro de 2003. Nessa perspectiva, a pesquisa buscou problematizar os pressupostos delimitados pelo referido programa, cujas premissas são o enfrentamento da pobreza, o acesso das famílias à rede de serviços públicos e o desenvolvimento de ações voltadas para a inserção dessa população na esfera produtiva. Ao compreendermos que a intenção desta política social é, sobretudo, elevar os níveis de escolaridade dos beneficiários para interromper o chamado "ciclo da pobreza" entre as gerações, o estudo faz uma reflexão sobre a participação das famílias no programa e discute as possíveis mudanças que ocorreram no âmbito educacional após o ingresso destas no PBF. Nesse sentido, os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados foram: a aplicação de formulários aos pais e aos alunos, bem como a realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os gestores do programa na cidade de Manaus. O trabalho revela que, o recebimento do benefício tem contribuído para diminuir a condição de privação das famílias em relação ao atendimento de suas necessidades imediatas. Assim como, reflete na diminuição das dificuldades para a freqüência dos educandos à escola. No entanto, o estudo aponta alguns entraves para consolidação dessa política social. / Abstract: This study analyses the social inclusion dimensions of the Program "Bolsa Família" - PBF -, which is the main action of income transference with conditionality instituted by the Brazilian Government, in October, 2003. In this perspective, this research aimed to problematize the presuppositions delimited by the referred program, whose premises are the poverty confrontation, the families' access to the net of public services and the development of actions which concern the insertion of this population into the productive sphere. When comprehending that the intention of this social policy is, above all, to raise its beneficiaries' scholarship levels in order to interrupt the so called "cycle of poverty" among the generations, this study makes a reflection about the participation of the families into the PBF and also discusses about the possible changes which occur in the educational scope after their ingression. This way, the methodological procedures used were: application of forms to the parents and pupils, as well as the accomplishment of half-structuralized interviews with the managers of the program in the city of Manaus. The project reveals that the benefit receiving has contributed to the reduction of the families' privation condition in what refers to the attendance of their immediate necessities; as well as, it reflects the reduction in the difficulties to the pupils' school attendance. However, the study highlights some impediments to the consolidation of this social policy. / Doutorado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Doutor em Educação