O contexto de informações sobre a evasão escolar no ensino médio técnico na Argentina

Abstract

In order to contribute to the analysis of the problem of dropout in the vocational education in Argentine, this paper presents the national educational statistical data for this level of education in 2015, which are discussed in relation to the quality of the data obtained and disaggregated by modality, gender and also type of offer. The discussion of quantitative data is based on literature on dropout and 18 interviews with managers of educational information and the technical-professional education modality in the country; the evidences are discussed in the light of the historical neoinstitutionalism theory. It was found that are still in the process of development information systems capable of bringing the schooldrop out measure and elucidate what is the real influence of school factors associated with it. Without systematized information, the discourse around the factors associated with schooldrop out can work in favor of historical rooting preconceptions about the vocational school - such as its selective mandate and gender issues -influencing the discourse on the initiatives formulated or denied to combat school dropout.