From dropout to permanence in Secondary school. A study from the general theory of systems

Abstract

The causes of school drop-out are complex, multireferential and multifactorial, each with a particular logic and its own nature, therefore, to build a comprehensive framework on this object, are used complexity and social constructivism (Morin) and the General Systems Theory (Bertalanffy). The objective of the broader study is to contribute to the systematization of information related to secondary schools with school dropout with the purpose of establishing, with the support of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, strategies that strengthen permanence and academic achievement. This text contextualizes and builds the theoretical foundation of school dropout to understand isomorphic relationships between subsystems. By the type of object and the method used, it is assumed that there is a complex, multireferential and multifactorial relationship between risk factors and school drop-out. The method is documentary research, content analysis as an instrument, complemented by statistical analysis for the establishment of context. As a result, models are proposed to show the interrelationships of risk factors as a complex system, closed to preserve their internal processes and open when they interact get feedback with environmental information. The results involve isomorphic understanding between social and AI objects, conceptually prefiguring the possibility of predictive and intervention models. The discussion is centered on the victimization of students and abandonment as exclusion, the viability of AI, and the potential transformation of secondary school.