Evasion and permanence: the experience of a specialization class for teachers in a remote context

Abstract

This article aims to identify the academic and professional trajectories of graduates of the Curso de Especialização Saberes e Práticas na Educação Básica, offered by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Cespeb/UFRJ), investigating the causes of evasion and retention in the class and inferring whether their motivations were related to the academic quality of the class and the impact of the remote format during the Covid-19 pandemic, during which the class took place. The adopted methodology was a qualitative and descriptive approach from the theoretical perspective of critical pedagogy, which addresses educational policies in close relationship with the social and economic realities that affect historical subjects in the materiality of such policies. As a conclusion, we highlight the importance of specialization classes for the continued training of Basic Education teachers, in the centrality of establishing a fruitful relationship between schools and universities in a dialogical and horizontal way, where knowledge and practices mobilized are embodied in new didactic possibilities for trained teachers.