Fluxo escolar de estudantes com cegueira na Educação de Jovens e Adultos na cidadede Belo Horizonte (2007-2018)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the school flow of students with blindness in Youth and Adult Education (known in Brazil by the Portuguese acronym EJA) in the city of Belo Horizonte/MG. To achieve the paper’s main goal, the microdata from the School Census of Basic Education, provided by National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (known in Brazil by the Portuguese acronym Inep) were analyzed, regarding the enrollment of students with blindness, between 2007 and 2018. The data were aggregated according to variables (type of education, stages of education, disability, sex, color/race, age). The study was guided by the perspective of the unity between the dimensions of quality and quantity, being inseparable. The results of the study showed that 47 students with blindness attended EJA in Belo Horizonte in the analyzed period. Among these students, 23 showed repetition or promotion, according to the enrollment data, in which 47.8% of them are male and 52.1% of them are female. Regarding to color or race, 13 students were mixed-race (56.2%), five were white (21.7%), two were black (8.6%), and three were undeclared (13%), indicating inequalities in access to education, since the black population, added to the mixed-race population, was the most affected. The 24 enrollments of students who dropped out after one year of study,that is, 51.06%, reveal that these students did not have effective schooling processes.