School dropout of university students in the career of Law and Social Sciences

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a great challenge for education at all levels, teachers and students have had to adapt to the new online class modality, despite the economic, technological and pedagogical obstacles that have arisen. The objective of this research is to identify the reasons that students of the Law and Social Sciences career at a public university in northwestern Mexico had to abandon their studies temporarily or permanently during the 2020-2021 school year, in times of pandemic by COVID-19. A study was carried out from the qualitative approach, of a descriptive type, the technique used was the semi-structured and indepth interview. Of a total of 32 students who had dropped out of school, 19 agreed to participate in the study. Although it is true that the virtual modality or online classes represented a lifeline for students in times of COVID, those who could not or did not want to adapt to this new school environment left their studies, the pedagogical aspect being the main reason why they were unable to adapt to the online work modality since they did not have adequate conditions at home